THE TENTH MUSE: MY LIFE IN FOOD
By Judith Jones
Alfred A. Knopf, 282 pages, $24.95
Since 1957, when Alfred Knopf lured her away from her job as a very junior editor-scout for Doubleday (prompted by her discovery of a book a Knopf editor had turned down, Anne Frank’s Diary), Judith Jones has Read More
Back in 1986, it seemed that a lot of us—and by us, I mean late-twentysomething and early-thirtysomething publishing employees in New York—were drifting. Relationships were sputtering or had foundered, our jobs felt undetermined, and we spent a lot of time over drinks in bars, wondering about the sudden journalistic appetite for glitz and money in Read More
Back in 1986, it seemed that a lot of us—and by us, I mean late-twentysomething and early-thirtysomething publishing employees in New York—were drifting. Relationships were sputtering or had foundered, our jobs felt undetermined, and we spent a lot of time over drinks in bars, wondering about the sudden journalistic appetite for glitz and money in Read More
