Galassi brought to the firm writers like Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Thomas Friedman, and he steadily rose to become editor-in-chief and executive vice-president.
"So many of the things we restore were never intended to last," Gordon A. Lewis, Jr., the managing director of the firm told writer.
Correction: October 16, 2004, Saturday An article in The Arts on Wednesday about a court ruling that may strengthen the position of writers who send scripts and propose stories to movie executives misstated part of the name of the Los Angeles law firm representing a writer who contended that Miramax had stolen his script.
Imagine you're an editor at a book publishing firm, and a writer comes to you with the idea of traveling to Seattle, Tahiti, Bora Bora, New Zealand, Australia, Tonga, England, Alaska and Hawaii in search of Captain Cook, the explorer who charted and helped to "discover" about a third of the planet a little over 200 years ago.
Jeff Nussbaum, a partner at the speechwriting firm West Wing Writers, is working on a book about undelivered speeches.
He says he and five other experts decided on the list after taking into account recommendations from the firm's guidebook writers and readers around the globe.
The writer was firm in her advice to potential guests: "If it's raining, don't come.
Barry Ritholtz, founder of investment research firm Fusion IQ and writer of the popular blog, The Big Picture, is known for his bearish views -- and the housing market is no exception.
In 1990, Melniker opened his own management firm, Melniker Management, representing writers, directors, actors and producers.
HarperCollins has partnered with the media technology firm Autography to allow writers to digitally autograph their fans' e-books.
THE DELANCEY In 2003, the Chicago design firm Coudal Partners began commissioning writers, artists, comedians, and the like to explore how place influences the experience of reading a book, and vice versa.
