As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes custodian fsg insider
A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work. Jonathan Galassi booknurtureposition Change image and share on social
Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. Jonathan Galassi edithipimprove Change image and share on social
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. Jonathan Galassi authorgreatlot Change image and share on social
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world. Aasif Mandvi absurditybackbrown share on social
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. Daniel Day-Lewis balanceblesscountry share on social
The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era. Jonathan Galassi auraenclosureera Change image and share on social