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050 00 $aPS3605.N45$bL37 2003
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100 1 $aEngelhardt, Tom,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94068415
245 14 $aThe last days of publishing :$ba novel /$cTom Engelhardt.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a215 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aThe last days of publishing -- History -- Two editors eating lunch -- Underground -- The paleontological is political -- Submission -- Earthshine.
520 1 $a"Pompeii never had it so bad. Rick Koppes knows a world is ending. The only question is, will he end with it? An editor at Byzantium Press for the last quarter century, he has watched his small, classy publishing house get gobbled up, first by an American publishing giant and then by Multimedia Entertainment, the Hollywood wing of Bruno Hindemann's German media empire. His editing colleagues are being downsized, his authors axed, and in a world where the cultural wallpaper is screaming, he himself hangs on by a fingernail - the latest work of his sole best-selling author, pop psychologist Walter Groth, is racing off bookstore shelves. And that's just where his problems begin - after all, Multimedia is about to make his ex-wife, a publishing executive at another house, his boss, his assistant wants his authors, and a woman who claims her father dropped the bomb on Nagasaki insists he publish her woeful memoir." "Koppes, who came of age in the sixties, is an editor slowly running off the rails. In the six episodes of The Last Days of Publishing, he refights the Vietnam War in a Chinese restaurant, discovers that the paleontological is political in a natural history museum, mixes it up with a flamboyant literary agent who went underground decades earlier, and encounters a hippie cultural oligarch on the forty-fifth floor of Multimedia's transnational entertainment headquarters."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPublishers and publishing$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109167
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3605.N45$iL37 2003