Download or read book At Random written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a publishing house.

Download or read book Try and Stop Me written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dear Donald Dear Bennett written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England. Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly all during that period. Bennett sent Donald long newsy letters about the book business—authors, sales, publishing gossip—as well as about what was happening in New York. Donald reacted in his wise, serene way to Bennett’s letters, and conveyed news of what was going on in the war, though sometimes censorship took its toll. This is nostalgia with substance, and because these letters were never intended to be read by anyone else, they reveal, in a convincing and wonderful way, just how special these two men were and how that specialness was reflected in the company they founded.

Download or read book More Riddles written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of riddles, such as "When is a cook bad? When she beats an egg." and "What kind of coat should be put on when it is wet? A coat of paint."

Download or read book Good for a Laugh written by Bennett Cerf and published by New York : Bantam Books. This book was released on 1954 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection the author's funny quips and stories.

Download or read book Reading for Pleasure written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plays of Our Time written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1967 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 9 plays produced on Broadway between 1946 and 1966.

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Pop Up Limericks written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1967-09-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Ghost Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Treasury of Atrocious Puns written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all of the puns Mr. Cerf has hoarded over the years. Some were written for the Saturday Review, This Week, King Features, Reader's Digest, and Playboy. Some have never appeared in print before.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sixteen Famous American Plays written by B. A. CERF and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Book of Laughs written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvin's days are filled with many humorous situations.

Download or read book Rosset written by Barney Rosset and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genet…Beckett…Burroughs…Miller…Ionesco, Ōe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Tropic of Cancer. The Evergreen Review. Victorian “erotica.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A bombing, a sit-in, and a near-fistfight with Norman Mailer. The common thread between these disparate elements, a number of which reshaped modern culture, was Barney Rosset. Rosset was the antidote to the trope of the “gentleman publisher” personified by other pioneering figures of the industry such as Alfred A. Knopf, Bennett Cerf and James Laughlin. If Barney saw a crowd heading one way—he looked the other. If he knew something was forbidden, he regarded it as a plus. Unsurprisingly, financial ruin, along with the highs and lows of critical reception, marked his career. But his unswerving dedication to publishing what he wanted made him one of the most influential publishers ever. Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012, and several publishers and a number of editors worked with him on the project. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literature—and sex. Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer’s Maidstone and Samuel Beckett’s Film; the battles with the US government over Tropic of Cancer and much else; the search for Che’s diaries; his romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more. At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored.

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-08-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.