(Michael MacCambridge, "America's Game," Anchor Books, 2005, p. 178).
Anchor Books has brought out a paperback edition of Hooman Majd's 2008 book about Iran, "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ," which adds to the original text a brief new preface about the disputed June 2009 election.
Epstein's work background includes starting Anchor Books at the age of 25, launching the Library of America, co-founding "the New York Review of Books" in 1963, and creating the Reader's Catalog in 1988.
Anchor Books, a division of Random House that is selling both the mass market and trade paperback editions of the book, said that in its first week it had sold about 500,000 copies.
By Macy Halford December 13 , 2009John Gall, the art director for Vintage and Anchor books (and the creator of those great Murakami paperback covers), has completed a daunting project: redesigning the covers for Nabokov's twenty-one books.
The publisher Jason Epstein called the Eighth Street Bookshop "a bibliographer's paradise," and said that the store was his inspiration for starting Anchor Books, considered by many to be one of the first producers of quality paperback editions.
Anchor Books collected Barth's first two novels in a single-volume edition in 1988; in his foreword to it Barth stated he originally titled the book What To Do Until the Doctor Comes, but Doubleday editor Edward Aswell persuaded him to change it, as he "feared the novel would be mistaken for a treatise on first aid".
What was it about that particular street that inspired you to anchor the book there?
Ms. Prose uses them to anchor her book firmly in this one family's particular world.
