Selected Articles
The story of how Cormac McCarthy came to be published is more complicated, and says more about the history of the book business, than readers might think. Publishers Weekly, 6/30/2023
A 4000-word, 150-year historical sweep through book censorship in America, written for Publishers Weekly's 150th anniversary issue on 4/19/2022.
Remembering One of the Very Greatest Publishers of All Time, Knopf's Sonny Mehta, The Bookseller, 1/2/2020
Towards correcting the story of the battle to publish James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' The New York Review of Books, 10/24/2019
The author's recollections of Toni Morrison as a book editor, Publishers Weekly, 8/19/2019
Remembering the life of the former CEO of Penguin Books, Publishers Weekly, 5/18/2018
“The Books & Books Business,” The Bookseller, 5/1/2015
“Cosby, and Other Cautionary Tales: A Writer Examines the Responsibilities of Biographers,” Publishers Weekly 1/5/2015
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/65156-cosby-and-other-cautionary-tales.html
“Why Penguin and Random Must Merge – And When They Almost Did,” The Daily Beast 11/9/12
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/09/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge-and-when-they-almost-did.html
Book Industry Trends 2004 (seven essays in Book Industry Study Group statistical yearbook)
“Independent Presses and ‘Little’ Magazines in American Culture: A Forty-Year Retrospective,” 2001
https://www.clmp.org/from-the-archive-independent-presses-and-little-magazines-in-american-culture-2001/
“Community Voices Fathers Day Memories Bright lights in the big city: The measure of one man's life,” The Philadelphia Inquirer 6/17/2001
http://articles.philly.com/2001-06-17/news/25323445_1_sign-man-rooftop-neon-dreams
“Cases; Life’s End: Little Help, No Dignity,” The New York Times 1/9/2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/09/health/cases-life-s-end-little-help-no-dignity.html
“Publishers Caught in a Web,” The Nation 1/26/2001
“A Bookmaker’s Tale,” The Nation 6/10/1999
“When Women Know Too Much,” The New York Times 10/12/1994
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/opinion/when-women-know-too-much.html
“The Best-Seller Blues: Hard Lessons from a Cosby Book,” NYTBR 6/10/1990
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/books/the-best-seller-blues-hard-lessons-from-a-cosby-book.html?pagewanted=all
“The Borzoi Three-Quarterly,” Publishers Weekly 10/26/1990
“The Organization of Publishing in China,” The China Quarterly volume 107 September 1986
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3561476&fileId=S0305741000039898