{"product_id":"9780374711832","title":"The Art of the Publisher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating memoir, the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. Recalling the beginnings of Adelphi in the 1960s, he touches on the Italian house's defining qualities, including the considerations involved in designing the successful \u003ci\u003eBiblioteca\u003c\/i\u003e series and the strategy for publishing a wide range of authors of high literary quality, as well as the historic critical edition of the works of Nietzsche.\u003cbr\u003e     With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets, and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the \"most hazardous and ambitious\" profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, a \u003ci\u003eform\u003c\/i\u003e in which \"all the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain\"—a conception akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits.\u003cbr\u003e     An essential book for writers, readers, and editors, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Publisher \u003c\/i\u003eis a tribute to the elusive yet profoundly relevant art of making books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104188219632,"sku":"9780374711832","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374711832_p0.jpg?v=1769913217","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374711832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}