Aug 27, 2022
Elisabeth Ruge is a
German editor, publisher and literary agent. She currently heads
the Elisabeth Ruge Agency which she founded in 2014. In 1994 she
established the Berlin Verlag publishing house together with her
then husband Arnulf Conradi and Veit Heinichen.
I met Elisabeth at her home on the
outskirts of Berlin...
Aug 19, 2022
Jonathan
Landgrebe is the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag. We met
at his offices in Berlin to talk about his role as head of one of
Germany's most revered publishing houses, and to riff off Siegfried
Unseld's book The Author and His Publisher.
Topics covered in our conversation include: important books that just don't...
Aug 13, 2022
Pamela Paul was books editor at
the New York Times from 2013 to March 2022 when she became an
opinion columnist for the newspaper.
We talk mostly about the role that
books editors play in the lifecycle of 'the book.' I also whine a
fair amount about how I don't like the fact that she left her
position plus we diverge...
Aug 7, 2022
Why listen to James
Marsh? Because he knows about love and
encyclopedias.
He grew up in The Junction district of
Toronto surviving a difficult childhood, and began his career in
publishing at Holt Rinehart and Winston where he was editor of a
Centennial history of Canada entitled Unity and Diversity.
He later became...