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Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
This month, Marilynne Robinson will publish Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 247 pages), her second novel, 23 years after publishing her first. That book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award. It is a mainstay of book clubs and lists of the best novels of the 20th century. The anticipation of Robinson's follow-up has been urgent, loud and public. In 2001 even her pastor weighed in. "She seems not to be applying herself to using that gift as much as I hope she would," the Rev. Bruce Fischer told a local newspaper...
...novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 676 pages), Wolfe has set himself the challenge of chronicling youthful hedonism on a college campus. But at 73, can Wolfe party with the frat boys? Or has America finally outrun its most tireless chronicler...
...Blunt Man of the Book When Roger Straus, the flamboyant co-founder and editor in chief of publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died in May at age 87, the literary world lost one of its most colorful characters [MILESTONES, June 7]. TIME profiled Straus in 1988, when his company was reaping prizes and profits...