AMONG FRIENDS: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century. Some of the most stressed-out young people in the United States, if movies can be believed, work in publishing. The young in publishing are acutely underpaid; some suffer from a broken-spirited servility; they fear they will never master the ninja techniques of literary social climbing. The older and more established in publishing have trod over a mountain of bodies to get where they are. Everyone is dowsing for a best seller, or wandering like Eeyore in search of his lost tail.

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Persons: Janet Bukovinsky, —, John Le Carré, martinis, West, “ hydroponics, ” Organizations: Book Publishing, Buz, Ls Locations: United States, triplicate, ”