State of Publishing with John Glusman from W. W. Norton and Company

A lively zoom conversation between John Glusman, vice president and editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton and Company, and Stanford English professor Mark Greif about the state of publishing today. Topics will include trade and academic presses, publishing trends, and more! 

About the speaker: John A. Glusman is vice president and editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton and Company, the largest independent, employee-owned publisher in the United States, and the author of Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945.

Glusman began his publishing career at Random House in 1980. From 1984 to 1986 he served as editor-in-chief of Washington Square Press, where he published Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, and Graham Swift in paperback. In 1986 he moved to Macmillan, where he launched the Collier Fiction series, the Best American Poetry annual, and published the early work of Jim Crace, John Banville, William T. Vollmann, Emmanuel Carrère, and Annie Proulx, From 1990 to 2004, Glusman worked at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, where he was eventually Editor in Chief and executive vice president before coming to Norton.

At W. W. Norton & Company, his authors include New York Times bestselling authors Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frans de Waal, Ronan Farrow, and Scott Weidensaul, Pulitzer Prize winners Richard Powers, David Rohde, and William Taubman, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Saidiya Hartman, National Book Critics Circle Award winner John Lahr, Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature winner Benjamin Balint,[6] Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner William Souder, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Robert Coover.

Registration for the event is required. Please register at: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ij1Wu0xgSiew3MmIkasdpg