Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Schiffrin, rebel of corporate publishing, dies

In this undated and unlocated photo provided by The New Press publishing house, Andre Schiffrin is portrayed. Schiffrin, who was expelled from the corporate publishing world after fostering the likes of Art Spiegelman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Studs Terkel and Noam Chomsky, has died in Paris. The New Press, a nonprofit publisher that Schiffrin founded after he was forced out of Pantheon Books in 1990 over the high-brow imprint's slender bottom line, said he died Sunday Dec.1, 2013 of pancreatic cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Micheline Pelletier) PARIS (AP) — Andre Schiffrin, the literary editor who gave readers Art Spiegelman, Michel Foucault and Studs Terkel before he was forced out of commercial publishing in a defining battle between profits and literature, has died in Paris. He was 78.








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