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And he was like, just had Hemingway's background

And the back channel communications with Scribner, right?

He made that happen, yeah.

So it would be, I think, tempting.

We could read your account and the conclusion would be, wait a second.

Is Leslie saying that Scribner bought The Son Also Rises sight unseen on Fitzgerald's word? And that's essentially what happened.

Which is completely unheard of for this iconic literary masterpiece to have been bought by a literary press sight unseen just because of the reputation that was largely hyped up by Fitzgerald.

Well, I think there was also some...

He started his first business at age 11, printing advertising flyers on a hand-cranked single-sheet press in his basement.

At age 14, when his father's hat business failed, he quit school and went to work for Charles Scribner, a prominent publisher of the time.

Frank did well, and in his late 20s, he came up with an interesting idea.

Frank took a train to Vermont to pitch his idea to a popular author of the day.

The story of James Robertson.

2. the story of John Sevier, three, the story of George Rogers Clark, four, stories of the French in America and the struggle for the Mississippi Valley, seven, bibliography, Gordy's American Leaders and Heroes, Charles Scribner's Sons, McMurray's Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley, and Hart's Source Reader in American History, number three, and Eggleston's Stories of Great Americans and and First Book in American History, A.B. Company, Catherwood's Heroes of the Middle West, and Blaisdell and Ball's Hero Stories from American History, Jen and Company, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of American History, D. Appleton and Company.

Methods of Primary Instruction 1.

Oral Presentation These stories should be given by the teacher in a simple animated style, adapted to the mental status of the child.

... that Alice Hoffman is one of the first authors I ever encountered in my publishing career.

I'm working at Scribner, and my number is officially now, like, on Alice Hoffman's book tour schedule.

She's on-

Okay

Let's look inside those walls with The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman.

This is published by Scribner, 81,263 shelves, a Read With Jenna and Woman's World pick.

And it's Alice Hoffman, the author of Practical Magic, so the pedigree here is undeniable.

Oh, completely undeniable.

You will be hearing Roberta Recchia reading from her best-selling novel, All That Is Left of Life.

It is available now in a beautiful translation by Antonella Lettieri from Scribner.

All That Is Left of Life was the official August pick of the Other People Book Club.

That is my book club.

Okay, there we go.

That was Roberta Recchia reading an excerpt from her best-selling novel, All That Is Left of Life.

Available from Scribner, it was the official August pick of the Other People book club.

You can follow Roberta Recchia on Instagram.

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Plays by Jernstern Bjornson, The Gauntlet, Beyond Our Power, The New System, translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Borkman, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.

In these days when we seem to see a return even in the life of every day to a consideration of those moral principles which in other times constituted the elements of vital religion, and when the speculation of such scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge are leading them to the verge of a new and mysterious faith, it is particularly interesting to take up for study a play which a generation ago considered these questions with a larger philosophical grasp and literary vigor.

I refer to Bjornson's crowning contribution to dramatic literature, or Auni.

Right.

Because up until 1958, Heinlein was kind of the golden goose for Scribner.

Yeah.

He was making them a ton of money.

And they flat out reject it.

They took one look at the intense violence, the heavy adult tone, and the relentless borderline militaristic classroom lectures, and they just said, no, this breaks all our house rules.

And Scribner's rejection is honestly one of the most consequential moments in science fiction publishing history.

Because he didn't back down.

he will do that on some letters.

I'm trying to think of if that to an actual correspondent, I'm, I'm sure to Charlie Scribner, he's going to the Scribner's folks.

He's going to do that, but certainly we have seen it on some pieces of correspondence, maybe on a, an envelope or something like that.

He's going to get include that information.