The New Press hosts a tribute to André Schiffrin
Publishing colleagues, family members and admirers gathered in the Cooper Union Great Hall on Wednesday night to celebrate the life of André Schiffrin, the visionary publisher who refused to sacrifice… Read more »
André Schiffrin on mergermania
The esteemed publishing veteran offers some cautionary wisdom… Read more »
An attack that “made no sense whatever”: Alexander Cockburn’s fight with a publisher
In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »
The dark visions of Alberto Vitale
Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale is back from the dead, expounding on the future of publishing and desperately trying to seem relevant in a long interview posted on Publishing… 2 / Read more »
André Schiffrin Awarded Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic
Two weeks ago, André Schiffrin, founder of The New Press, the former publisher of Pantheon Books, and the author of our A Political Eduction, was awarded the Chevalier in the… Read more »