“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades.

一家成功的出版社内部有些什么传奇故事？

Bennett Cerf的回忆录告诉我们，现实比小说更精彩。他讲述了兰登书屋的创立与发展，以及他与多位著名作家的故事，其中包括福克纳，萧伯纳，乔伊斯等等。