Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, September 05, 2008


Robert Giroux, a partner in a prestigious publishing house bearing his name, now just another imprint of a German firm that owns newspapers, has died. His CV includes Edmund Wilson, T. S. Eliot, the American edition of 1984, and an honorary mention for J. D. Salinger; no doubt today at Holtzzzzzzzbrrrrrinckk they'd call those demerits. How apt that Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote his obituary; for a long time he was one of the leading logrollers among the Paper of Re-CORD's book reviewers, and I guess logrolling is what in the publishing biz they once called "gentlemanly."

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