In a message dated 12/30/08 3:42:46 PM, [email protected] writes:
> o, Cheerskep -- which publishers have the best reputation for publishing
> books today about the issues that have concerned us
> here on this listserv ?
>
> When looking for such books -- does it make any sense to begin with books
> from
> these publishers?
>
I always blink when I focus on the fact that it's been twelve years since I
left publishing. So I am in effect useless as a source of info about who's who
or where now. I've never been aware of any general ("trade") books publisher
with a particular emphasis on books in the area of aesthetics, though of
course there are "art books" publishers, and "theater books" and even at least
one house given over to books for writers.
But many big college textbook publishers and university presses do
anthologies and "scholarly" books in aesthetics. My old house, St. Martin's
Press, did
several anthologies.
It used to be that a good way for a writer to find the best place for a
him/her to submit a manuscript was to scan his own shelves and see what house
seems
to publish the kinds of books he's interested in. Of course the trick is to
find the name of a specific editor. Send it just to the house and it will be
put on the slush pile to be read some time before you're old by an assistant in
his twenties. Or, perhaps more likely these days, just returned unread.
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