Many publishing types consider him a bully.
About 300 people showed up, mostly striving writers and publishing types.
THE TriBeCa town house was filling up with cocktail-swilling publishing types, but Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, a book agent, had her eyes on something besides the next seven-figure deal.
By Suzanne Mantell The New Yorker, March 20 , 1995P. 42 Signed Talk story about a trip to Cuba by a group of 60 or so American publishing types looking for talent.
Mr. Osian, whose parts include several bigoted legal and publishing types and an Israeli director, has even less to work with.
Maybe it isn't surprising that a book with such a curiously dated opening (set in a full church, of all places) failed to strike a chord with harassed publishing types.
But Fifth Avenue remained for him the greatest place in the world, an intersection where East met West, uptown met downtown, publishing types in pencil skirts met Chanel-clad socialites, and black met white.
The title essay is a strange kind of apologia for her previous work, a description of how she was lured by New York publishing types into writing memoirs instead of collections of personal essays.
PRIZE FIGHTERS: It's the literary awards season, the time of year when publishing types scan the lists of nominated books and mutter, "They picked what?" If you've wondered what can go on behind the scenes at prize committees, have a look at the novelist John Fowles's "Journals, Volume II: 1966-1990," publasted last month.
FOR Greg Gutfeld, the 38-year-old former editor of the brooding lad magazine Stuff, the set-up was just too rich: an earnest group of publishing types were gathering at the American Society of Magazine Editors in Manhattan for a seminar in April on "What Gives a Magazine Buzz".
