The Desert Sun summarized the allure of the valley in June 1953: “Sun, sand and stars … celestial or Hollywood … are some of the important ingredients that make Palm Springs the nation’s foremost ...
"Will Random House be any fun at all as a 'big business' instead of our very personal venture?" wonders Klopfer in a 1944 letter to his fellow Random House founding partner Cerf. Many have wistfully ...
As a latter-day Joe Miller, Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf modestly styles himself “a regular incubator for anecdotes and witty quips.” While incubating his hugely successful (600,000 copies) ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...
Natalia Almada’s Users is an inquisition on technology and its inextricable nature from modern life. Juxtaposed against Californian wildfires and oceans on the rise, the film questions what progress ...
Random House. 224 pp. $25 This one is a genuine surprise. A collection of correspondence between the two men who founded Random House, it seems at first nothing more than a Valentine from Random House ...
Biographies of book publishers are scarce, though the possibility of one or another is frequently announced, never to appear. Their lives, I once conjectured, had too many uncomfortable secrets that ...
Former employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would ...
Natalia Almada’s Users is an inquisition on technology and its inextricable nature from modern life. Juxtaposed against Californian wildfires and oceans on the rise, the film questions what progress ...
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