...Evan Brier Abstract How should Toni Morrison’s work as a Random House editor be understood? How does it figure, that is, in the larger contexts of literary history, publishing history, and the history of African American expression? Positioning Morrison’s editorial work in relation to the corporate...

...Daniel Pecchenino In this essay, Pecchenino uses Salinger's 1986 lawsuit against his unauthorized biographer, Ian Hamilton, and Random House, Inc. (over Hamilton's use of quotations from Salinger's personal and previously unpublished letters) to explore the highly interpretive natures of U.S...

... . 1980 . Music for Chameleons . New York : Random House . Capote Truman . 1994a . Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel . New York : Vintage International . Capote Truman . 1994b . In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences . New York : Vintage...

...- erature. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. Faulkner, William. 1951. Requiem for a Nun. New York: Vintage. 330  American Literature 1954. A Fable. New York: Random House. (1955) 2004. “On Privacy.” In Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters. Edited by James B. Meriwether, 62–75. New York: Random...

... suggestive description, the narrator of Absa- lom compares Charles Bon’s violent, episodic life following his depar- ture from Sutpen’s Hundred to a ‘‘broken cinema film’’ (170). Faulkner uses this description again years later in a letter to Robert N. Linscott, the senior editor at Random House, when he...

... : Univ. of Illinois Press . Ellison Ralph . (1959) 1964 . “ The Golden Age, Time Past .” In Shadow and Act, 199 – 212 . New York : Random House . Gates Henry Louis Jr. 1988 . The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism . New York : Oxford Univ...

... Lettres 10 , no. 2 : 40 – 43 . Cleaver Eldridge . 1999 . Soul on Ice . New York : Random House . First published 1968. Crafts Hannah . 2002 . The Bondwoman’s Narrative . Edited by Gates Henry Louis Jr. New York : Grand Central Publishing . Dewey John . 1998...

...: Random House. Shamir, Milette. 2006. Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. Simpson, Jeffrey E. 1984. “Thoreau ‘Dreaming Awake and Asleep Modern Language Studies 14, no. 3: 54–62. Smail, Daniel Lord. 2008...

... cultures. Here, she provides a fascinat- ing look at how genre works to establish the placement of books on the retail- er’s shelf, thereby structuring the reader’s expectations of a book. Rak then returns to two specific publishing firms, Random House and HarperCollins, and to their production...

... , January 21 . Rago Henry . 1948 . “ The Discomforts of Storytelling .” Sewanee Review 56 , no. 3 : 514 – 21 . Random House . 1948 . Advertisement . New York Times Book Review , January 25 . Rascoe Burton . 1920 . “ A Youth in the Saddle .” Chicago Daily Tribune...

... on the retail- er’s shelf, thereby structuring the reader’s expectations of a book. Rak then returns to two specific publishing firms, Random House and HarperCollins, and to their production of memoirs during a single year. Her readings of sev- eral selected memoirs, and of their paratextual elements...

...; reprinted as “The New Yorker Prospectus” in Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the “New Yorker” (New York: Random House, 1995), 440. 2 Harrison Smith, “The Best Sellers,” Saturday Review of Literature, 27 October 1951, 22. 3 Neil Evernden, The Social Creation...

...- den Brown. New York: Random House. 2002. xxvii, 376 pp. Paper, $11.95. In his introduction, Caleb Crain names Brown’s novel as the origin of Ameri- can gothic. He credits Brown with intuiting and expressing America’s deep...

... works such as Suttree (1979) and The Road (2006) in relation to McCarthy’s Random House editor, Albert Erskine, King mines various literary archives so as to better understand the oeuvre of the man known as a “gregarious recluse.” Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland...

... sociological generalizations mas- querading as creative experimentation or intellectual depth in artistic discourse. Through frequent contact with his Random House editor Albert Erskine (a founding editor of Southern Review...

... and the Literary Imagination (New York: Random House, 1992). 5 See Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Blackness: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984), 38. 6 See Édouard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi (1996), trans. Barbara Lewis...

... the Past at Colonial Williamsburg . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Harris Robert . 1992 . Fatherland . New York : Random House . Hawthorne Nathaniel . ( 1850 ) 1983 . The Scarlet Letter , in Collected Novels , edited by Bell Millicent , 115 – 346 . New York : Library...

... Groups Concerned with the Problem of Street Corner Employment of Domestic Workers) ( April ). Davis Jane . 1986 . “ More Farce than Human: Richard Wright's Female Characters ,” Obsidian II ( Winter ): 68 – 83 . Ellison Ralph . 1964 . Shadow and Act . New York : Random House...

... ‘‘Editing the Crisis Crisis, March 1951; reprinted in The CRISIS Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.’s CRISIS Magazine,ed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (New York: Random House, 1999), xxix. 16 Ibid., xviii. 17 ‘‘Editing the Crisis’’ is a typical example of DuBois’s commentary...

.... New York: Continuum. Spillers, Hortense. 1987. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Gram- mar Book.” Diacritics 17, no. 2: 64–81. Waal, Frans de. 2009. The Age of Empathy. New York: Random House. White, Dana F. and Victor A. Kramer. 1979. Olmsted South, Old South Critic/ New South...