TM
, already the author of five novels, resigned from her job with Random House
in order to become a full-time author (though she continued to take short-term appointments in the university world).
Cooke, Rachel. “America is going backwards”. The Observer, p. 15.
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Employer
Toni Morrison
Meanwhile, after her divorce, TM
came north and became an associate editor with a subsidiary of Random House
publishers, then transferred to the parent company. With two small children and little social life, she held...
Intertextuality and Influence
Toni Morrison
TM
dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
In his introduction to this text, Thornton Wilder
wrote that the fundamental preoccupation of Miss Stein's life was not the work of art but the shaping of a theory of knowledge, a theory of time...
Literary responses
Mary Taylor
It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that...
Literary responses
Toni Morrison
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
has argued that of all the books Morrison dealt with at Random House
, this one stands out as a strange and singular creation and one that vividly captures her notion of...
Material Conditions of Writing
Toni Morrison
Soon after TM
left her editor's position at Random House
, she contributed to an anthology by Mari Evans
(Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation) an essay entitled Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.
Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi. “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”. New York Times Magazine.
Material Conditions of Writing
Penelope Mortimer
PM
also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy
's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers
, but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request...
Occupation
Sylvia Beach
Joyce
was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth
at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...
Publishing
W. H. Auden
WHA
again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House
in New York the year before it appeared from Faber
in London.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing
Gertrude Stein
This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf
of Random House
and GS
for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS
's works at the rate of one...
Publishing
Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage
in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair
, and one from David Campbell
in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
AW
's usual publishers, Random House
, were put off by the spirituality that drives this book, and did not want to issue it.
Walker, Alice. “A Conversation with David Swick from <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Shambhala Sun</span> (2006)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, pp. 301-10.
Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House
became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...
1999: Gail Rebuck became head executive of Random...
Writing climate item
1999
Gail Rebuck
became head executive of Random House
, one of the largest publishers of English language books.
August 2002: Random House published War Torn: Stories...
Writing climate item
August 2002
Random House
published War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam.
Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...
Writing climate item
Early November 2012
A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin
and Random House
, that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
