Mitzi Angel
Lineup for August 27, 2008
In Denver, Felix Gillette meets MSNBC's newest star, Rachel Maddow, who tells him, "My agenda for the next two weeks is to enjoy being at the conventions—like, 'Oh, that’s Joe Biden outside the window! Woo-hoo!'... I've never covered a convention before. I'm trying to keep it together and stay relaxed."
"I don’t like events where there are a gazillion reporters,” The New York Times political reporter Nagourney tells John Koblin at the DNC. "If you come here and David Axelrod came walking down the aisle over there, there'd be 500 people around him, and you’d be getting the most boilerplate quotes. So what’s the point?"
Leon Neyfakh checks in with Mitzi Angel, who recently relocated to New York to head up FSG's Faber & Faber imprint. Here's what she says about selling books in England: "You know, where you buy your food—there are these big, huge places where everybody goes to buy their food. And now they also sell books, at huge discounts, and they buy them at huge discounts from publishers. They're where you buy everything, these huge places—you go for your weekly shopping, and you buy your newspaper there, you buy a book, you buy a saucepan and you buy a kettle and you buy all your food. And most of the books are rubbish."
Plus: 7 for September... Howard Wolfson... Bumped Bankers Go Bonkers!
Britsy Mitzi Arrives At Faber & Faber Just in Time
Before Mitzi Angel became the new head of FSG imprint Faber & Faber here in New York, a job she started only a few weeks ago, she lived in London with her boyfriend and worked as an editor at a small literary publishing house founded during the mid-1980s called 4th Estate. It was an enormously successful operation for an independent, and it was not long after Ms. Angel joined up that it merged with HarperCollins UK. Because so many people quit or were laid off in the aftermath of the transition, she rose quickly and was soon known as an editor with an uncommon talent for finding new writers. read more »
Galassi Does U.S. a Big Faber
It was one year ago that Farrar, Straus & Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi first started trying to convince Mitzi Angel, the editorial director at a small literary imprint of HarperCollins UK, to move to America and come work for him. “Mitzi just walked into my office one day and I thought, ‘Wow, I want this person to work here,” Mr. Galassi said. “I felt that the minute I met her. I’ve been chasing her ever since.” read more »
