Jonathan Galassi. (2015). Muse: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jonathan Galassi. 2015. Muse: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jonathan Galassi, Muse: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

Jonathan Galassi. Muse: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: JONATHAN GALASSI is a lifelong veteran of the publishing world and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He lives in New York City.
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From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both.
Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures on its list. Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the ins and outs of the book trade—how to work an agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he adores.
But Paul’s deepest admiration has always been reserved for one writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose audacious verse and notorious private life have shaped America’s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher—also her cousin and erstwhile lover—happens to be Homer’s biggest rival. And when Paul at last has the chance to meet Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret—one that will change all of their lives forever.
Studded with juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, written with both satiric verve and openhearted nostalgia, Muse is a brilliant, haunting book about the beguiling interplay between life and art, and the eternal romance of literature.

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   • source: The New Yorker
   • content: "Entertaining . . . The rivalries of the literary world animate this debut novel, which follows Paul Dukach, a rising editor at one of New York's last independent publishers; his boss, Homer Stern; and Sterling Wainwright, the head of their main competitor. All three are captivated by the same woman, the poet Ida Perkins, who is revered by Paul, pursued by Homer, and published (and occasionally bedded) by Sterling. Paul's career takes flight when Ida entrusts him with an explosive secret. Muse is a testament to the purity of the written word, and the turmoil that can be required to get it on paper."
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   • source: Kevin Nance, USA Today ***
   • content: "Excellent. A valentine to a half-remembered, half-imagined world: a tale of two literary publishers who for decades have jousted with each other for the affections--and copyrights--of one Ida Perkins, a modernist master with the shimmering technique of Marianne Moore, the erotic frankness of Anne Sexton, and the massive readership--well, of no poet who ever lived in the 20th century, but we can dream, can't we? The fulcrum of the story is a young editor-in-chief whose ongoing obsession with Ida's life and work that leads him into a chain of events that culminates with a bombshell of a gift: a final manuscript whose contents, once published, will transform all their lives . . . A terrific novel--a crackling good story [in] sparkling prose."
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   • source: Anthony Domestico, Commonweal
   • content: "Muse is a song of praise for Galassi's two loves, publishing and poetry . . . He beautifully represents moments of literary triumph: when the poet finds the words coming just right; when the pristine, unexpected manuscript shows up on the editor's desk; when the publisher sees a masterpiece he has championed become recognized as such. Galassi makes poetry and publishing feel alive, with complexity and drama and feeling."
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   • source: Michele Filgate, Salon
   • content: "You don't have to work in publishing to enjoy Muse, a story that draws a lot from the writer's own experience. In his time at FSG, Galassi ushered some of the most esteemed writers into the literary landscape, including Jonathan Franzen. There are plenty of recognizable characters; Galassi also has a clear love of words and the types of people, both publishers and authors, who are behind them. He's concerned with the 'romance of reading,' and those who 'were loyal to their own sometimes twisted yet settled natures, modern in the old-fashioned sense.'"
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   • source: Steven Petite, The Huffington Post
   • content: "Galassi's debut novel reads with the exuberance of a man half his age and with intellect of a successful businessman. The trend of writers writing about novelists is nothing new, [but] what separates Galassi is that his vast knowledge and experience provides him with chops to fully encompass the literary world. The novel centers around two publishing houses, a revolutionary poet, and an editor who gets caught in between it all. The job of a novelist is to make a world come alive, and by the end of Muse, many will be Googling Ida Perkins to see if she was a real poet . . . Galassi has a treasure trove of information which he supplies to readers in great, and gorgeous detail. Muse is a novel that displays a love and passion for literature by one of the most decorated members of the industry. Call it a passion project, a memoir of sorts, a love letter to beautiful writing: Galassi has been inspired by his Muse."
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   • source: Ann Kjellberg, The New York Review of Books
   • content: "Fascinating . . . Muse is built around a charming premise: that an important American poet could become as famous as a pop star, a screen siren or an athlete. Here we are in the midst of fantasy, but a fantasy not far, as Galassi's novel eloquently illustrates, from the one inhabited by people in the literature business. It is one of the pleasures of Muse to watch Galassi mix his fictional literati with the real ones. Among the deepest themes of this book are the entanglements of love, judgment, business, art, narcissism, craft, and the power. The work [Galassi] gives Ida is strikingly charming and direct--inward-looking and meditative. But I suspect that Ida is less
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     March 16, 2015
     In poet Galassi’s first novel, a book editor navigates the world of 21st-century publishing while unraveling the secrets of his lifelong hero, an octogenarian poet named Ida Perkins. The novel opens during the postwar literary boom, when nemeses Homer Stern and Sterling Wainwright launch competing houses—P&S and Impetus, respectively. The protagonist, Paul Dukach, begins working at P&S in the ’90s, when Union Square is still “the city’s major needle park.” The bulk of the story, though, transpires in the aughts, when Paul, driven by his obsession with Ida, befriends Homer’s foe, Sterling, a cousin of the poet. When Sterling gives Paul the cryptic notebooks of Ida’s late love to decode, the project becomes an occasion for a meeting with Ida. This meeting reveals her final, secret collection—the contents of which, Paul realizes, have the potential to turn publishing upside-down. The fun of this book is watching Galassi, who serves as president and publisher of FSG, weave his fictional characters into real literary history and put his considerable gifts as a poet to good use. Indeed, Perkins’ verses (“she smells the ozone” / “after love the fear”) surpass Galassi’s expositions on publishing and its ongoing war against Big Tech. Agent: Melanie Jackson, Melanie Jackson Agency.

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     April 1, 2015
     An insider's look at New York book publishing spins a fable of egos, literature, and commerce in which an editor's obsession with a poet leads to the revelation of a crucial secret. Galassi (Left-Handed, 2012, etc.) is a poet and translator and, for his day job, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In this fiction debut, he imagines the gifted and beautiful poet Ida Perkins, cynosure of men literary and otherwise. A critics' darling from her first collection at 18, she soon captivates enough readers to make her that rarest of phenomena, a profitable poet. Her fortunate publisher is Sterling Wainwright of Impetus Editions, a WASP from old New England money, and his chief rival is Homer Stern of Purcell & Stern, a savvy, foulmouthed Austrian Jew who racks up more Nobels than any other house-except Farrar. The obsessive is Paul Dukach, whose early years working in a bookstore led him to a passion for and near-omniscience about Ida and a job at P&S. A first-time meeting with Ida brings him and the story to the ultimate collision of private person and published writing that has percolated through the novel, as it has through the history of literary criticism. With the Paul and Ida characters, Galassi conveys the thrill of being dazzled by literature. (The sample Ida poems suggest that he favors feeling and clarity over obscurantism.) He also has fun with the language of reviewing while delivering a casual seminar on American poetry. A sense of historical fiction permeates in references to Ida's many triumphs and contemporary events and in thumbnail sketches of several characters. Janis Joplin sings one of Ida's poems at Woodstock. Marianne Moore tells her "We are pierced by the intricate needlework of your asperitic formulations." An extended riff on the Frankfurt Book Fair bespeaks years of painful firsthand experience. May be more fun for cognoscenti than for common readers, yet it offers a worthy psalm on the pre-Amazon, pre-digital days of publishing that anyone might appreciate. Galassi rates praise especially for choosing to have some knowing fun with his years in the business and sparing the world another memoir.

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     May 15, 2015
     Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, translator, and poet (Left-Handed, 2012), debuts as a novelist with a serenade to books that is at once heartfelt and wryly satirical. His selectively autobiographical protagonist, Paul Dukach, was a lonely, small-town bookworm rescued by a bookstore owner and the seductively subversive work of Ida Perkins, that rarest of creatures, a celebrity poet. Galvanized and emboldened, Paul becomes a recognized Perkins expert, moves to New York City, slowly, painfully accepts that he is gay, and gratefully secures a job at a prestigious publishing house, working for the flamboyantly competitive Homer Stern, a dead ringer for Roger Straus and one of an entire cast of characters impishly and affectionately based on publishing luminaries and writers (for clues, see Boris Kachka's Hothouse (2013), a history of FSG). So yes, Galassi's tantalizing novel is a roman a clef spiked with mordantly funny commentary on the precarious state of publishing. But it is also, via Paul's convictions, quandaries, and discoveries, a stealthily affecting and profound homage to the wonders and life-sustaining power of literature.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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      January 1, 2015
      

      President and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and author of three collections of poetry, Galassi offers a debut novel that, not surprisingly, concerns publishing itself. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, hanging on in seen-better-days offices near Manhattan's Union Square as that rare independent. He wants to add dazzling poet Ida Perkins to his list, but her longtime publisher (also her cousin and sometime lover) is a major rival of Paul's boss.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures on its list. Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the ins and outs of the book trade—how to work an agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he adores.
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