Ileene Smith, executive director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and who previously acquired the Nabokov scholarship of Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, acquired on Monday (New York Observer, Kat Stoeffel, 04.04.12) a biography of Blanche Knopf, wife of Alfred A. Knopf, and former director and vice-president of the publishing house, written by Laura Claridge

Ileene Smith, executive director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and who previously acquired the Nabokov scholarship of Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, acquired on Monday (New York Observer, Kat Stoeffel, 04.04.12) a biography of Blanche Knopf, wife of Alfred A. Knopf, and former director and vice-president of the publishing house, written by Laura Claridge.

“In the few articles written about her, Blanche is credited with luring the European giants like Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and André Gide (as well as the Americans like John Updike and H.L. Mencken) who established the house’s literary credentials.”

 

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Writing in The Chronicle Review (01.04.12) in “French Lessons: How Paris Changed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis”, Alice Kaplan cites Julia Kristeva, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq: “As representatives of the aspirations of three generations, these women might be said to typify the aesthetes, the bohemians, the political activists. By following them in their travels, we can witness an entire intellectual and cultural history of France: the transition from the aesthetic values leading up to World War II, to the iconoclastic formalism of the avant-garde 1950s, to political revolt in the 1960s, when France was re-establishing its historical values, experimenting with the new, and striking out, at the height of its affluence, against oppressive authority. French writers and artists changed guard alongside the three Americans: Juliette Greco, Simone de Beauvoir, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Jacqueline Bouvier and Susan Sontag’s generation gave way to Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault in Angela Davis’s. Classical France yielded to swinging France, to the France of high concepts and of deconstruction” »