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Schiffrin published a memoir in 2000, in which he explains his side of the controversies surrounding Pantheon and Random House called The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read, in which he accused Vitale and those with money-making interests of homogenizing the publishing industry by focusing too much on profits and warns, " the resulting control on the spread of ideas is stricter than anyone would have though possible in a free society ".
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Schiffrin and published
Schiffrin quit Pantheon in 1990 and established the nonprofit The New Press, explaining that he did so because of economic trends that prevented him from publishing the serious books he thought should be published.
In February 1990, Schiffrin was " asked to resign after he refused to reduce the number of titles published Pantheon or to trim Pantheon's 30-member staff ".
Authors of books published by Pantheon, Random House, and other related imprints, including Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Oliver Sacks, held a protest outside of Random House in March 1990 during which they argued that the termination of Schiffrin amounted to corporate censorship of the books that would not be printed without him.
Schiffrin and 2000
Schiffrin discusses what he regards as the crisis in western publishing in his book The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read ( 2000 ).
Schiffrin and which
Schiffrin is the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew who emigrated to France and briefly enjoyed success there as publisher of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, which he founded, and which was bought by Gallimard, until he was dismissed on account of the anti-Jewish laws enforced by the Vichy regime.
The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade is a French series of books which was created in the 1930s by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor.
Schiffrin and Pantheon
For nearly 30 years Schiffrin was director of publishing at Pantheon Books, where he was partially responsible for introducing the works of Pasternak, Foucault and others to America.
Also in 1961, Pantheon hired Andre Schiffrin as executive editor of Pantheon Books.
Under the direction of Schiffrin, Pantheon continued to publish important works by European writers such as The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, who would later receive a Nobel Prize for his work ; Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault, The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir.
Again, Schiffrin protested, noting that in the eight years since Random House had come under the direction of Vitale, " Random House's ' high end '— the literary translations and books of criticism, cultural history and political analysis that had built the reputation of the Knopf and Pantheon imprints — were being sacrificed " and that concerns for the " bottom line " would outweigh intellectual and social concerns.
( After moving to New York to escape from Nazism, Schiffrin was a founder of Pantheon Books.
Schiffrin and Random
Novelist E. L. Doctorow used his acceptance speech for a fiction prize at the March 1990 National Book Critics Circle award ceremony to criticize Random House for ousting Schiffrin.
Schiffrin and International
Anya Schiffrin ( born 6 December 1962 ) is acting director of the International Media and Communications ( IMC ) program and an adjunct professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
As well as her role in the School of International and Public Affairs, Schiffrin is also the director of journalism training programs at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, an international network of economists based at Columbia, and founder of journalismtraining. net.
Schiffrin and with
* " André Schiffrin in conversation with Williams Cole and Theodore Hamm " The Brooklyn Rail ( March 2007 )
This method was discovered by Brust and Schiffrin in early 1990s, and can be used to produce gold nanoparticles in organic liquids that are normally not miscible with water ( like toluene ).
There were accusations that the paper was Communist-dominated, but a thesis by Anya Schiffrin concluded that the paper frequently opposed the policies of the Communist Party and got into editorial fights with the CP's paper, the Daily Worker.
) Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the complete works of classic authors in a pocket format.
Schiffrin and by
For The Exorcist, William Friedkin rejected a score by Lalo Schiffrin and used the temp track featuring assorted pieces of music including part of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
Schiffrin and on
* André Schiffrin discusses French and American politics on French radio, aired 19 April 2007 ( RealAudio )
Schiffrin and is
André Schiffrin ( born 12 June 1935 in Paris ) is a European-born American author, publisher and socialist.
Schiffrin is an American former business journalist.
Schiffrin is an alumna of Reed College.
She is the daughter of the author and publisher André Schiffrin, and the sister in law of the lawyer Philippe Sands.
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