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September 5, 2008
From The Associated Press: Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped create one of the most notable publishing houses -- Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- had been in failing health for a couple of months and died at an assisted living facility in Tinton Falls, N.J., Jeff Seroy, a Farrar, Straus spokesman, said. Known throughout the industry for his taste and discretion, he began in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Company and had so great a reputation that when he left in 1955 to join what was then Farrar, Straus, more than a dozen writers joined him, including Flannery O'Connor, Malamud and Eliot, a close friend. "(W)hen I faced a difficult decision about my own career, his support and encouragement saw me through a crisis," Giroux later said of the poet.  Comments (0) Leave comment
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Here's what's scheduled for Sunday's books pages in GuideLive: Three recent books offer fresh perspectives on Vietnam. We offer a look at the three books: The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, by Mark Atwood Lawrence; On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam, by Joyce Hoffmann; and We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. A fictional look at another difficult piece of American history is offered by Kathleen Kent in The Heretic's Daughter. (If you missed it, here's Joy Tipping's interview with the Dallas writer.) Speaking of Dallas, Harvey Graff paints an unflattering portrait in The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. And an addict fact-checks his own addiction in The Night of the Gun, by David Carr. Comments (0) Leave comment
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