Random House

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon.

Scarry’s guides to life both reflected and bolstered kids’ lived experience, and in some cases even provided the template for it.

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

How Ralph Ellison got Invisible Man into the canon.

John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?

Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.

Understanding history can help us understand what will be necessary if we’re serious about finally having a more diverse, less exclusionary publishing industry.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

When Pete Townshend whacked Abbie Hoffman offstage.