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Fifty fifty : Carcanet's jubilee in letters

Title

Fifty fifty : Carcanet's jubilee in letters / with an introduction and interjections by Michael Schmidt ; edited by Robyn Marsack.

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.
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Description

xxvi, 27-462 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of letters - handwritten, typed, and now emailed - between an author and the editor.Beginning in 1969 with the response to an invitation to subscribe to Carcanet for two guineas, the book traces Carcanet's progress and offers insight into the nature of literary editing. At its heart is the personal relationship of author and editor/publisher, the conflicts, friendships and vicissitudes that occur at the nexus between the work, its creator, publisher and reader. Poets are central, but fiction writers, translators, biographers and critics also contribute to the Carcanet ferment and firmament. Fifty Fifty celebrates the writers', readers' and editor's risks, passions and pleasures-- from publisher.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Letters to the editor.
Personal correspondence.

Note

Includes index.

Call Number

JFD 20-2389

ISBN

9781784108786
1784108782

OCLC

1129394449

Title

Fifty fifty : Carcanet's jubilee in letters / with an introduction and interjections by Michael Schmidt ; edited by Robyn Marsack.

Publisher

Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Marsack, Robyn, editor.

Schmidt, Michael, 1947- writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2389

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