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Title	:	At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
Author	:	Bennett Cerf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 5th 2002 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Writing. Books About Books

At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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“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.

Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a publishing house.

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Original Title:	At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
ISBN:	037575976X (ISBN13: 9780375759765)
Edition Language:	English

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This is one of very few books of which I never wanted to reach the end, and it broke my heart when I did. Bennett was many things, including a vivacious spirit, a terrible punster, a bon vivant, and a man with impeccable taste in literature - these memoirs of the famous founder of Random House publishing were sheer heaven!

I picked up this book because I had the good fortune to meet Bennett Cerf's son Chris through the Columbia Publishing Course. Anyone going into book publishing should definitely give this book a read, as it provides an entertaining look at the early 20th century publishing world, among other things.The book is made up of chapters of Bennett Cerf's (the co-founder of Random House) life, stories, and thought processes. A lot of it is gleaned from oral interviews with Cerf, so some of the stories

Fantastic!!!!!!

Jovial reminiscences from the master of Random House publishers in New York City, best known to Fifites Americans as the punster who usually had a dictionary to sell on TV's "What's My Line." In this book, we learn that the Cerf family is of Alsatian Jewish origin, that Bennett grew up an overachiever and made many enduring friends while a student at Columbia, that he took a little experimental publisher called Modern Library and helped build it into a middle-class mainstay of literate Americans



This was another one of those books which I have had for well over 30 years but never picked up to read. But now that I am low on books to pick from, I did . I had expected to read about the Bennett cerf form WHAT IS MY LINE tv show. I had forgot that he was the owner of Random house publishers.. The book was wonderful ,Cerf came into contact with all the authors of his day and his day was the time period of my favorite authors.

Me ha encantado. Por divertido, por curioso, por leyenda de la creación de un mónstruo editorial. Por todo