In Publishing Lives, publishers from 31 independent presses talk about
how they came to publishing and why they stayed ( or didn't), the
mistakes they made, their relationships with authors, the problems of
growth, definitions of success, why they do or do not seek grants, their
relationships with distributors, bookstores, New York and Toronto, and
each other. More than just a directory, Publishing Lives presents these
publishers as the spiritual heirs of the nineteenth-century founders of
the great New York houses.