Encounters : my life in publishing

In his memoir, Encounters, completed at age 99, George Braziller, the groundbreaking independent publisher, describes in vivid detail going to work at age 16 in Depression-Era Brooklyn, his political awakening with the Spanish Civil War, his service in World War II, and his bold adventures in publishing. He recounts his start as a shipping clerk, his founding of book clubs and then his time at the helm of his publishing house, which for 60 years has brought influential books on art, architecture, poetry, fiction and non-fiction to many readers. Encounters offers glimpses behind the scenes with artists and authors, including Picasso, Orhan Pamuk, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.

The street -- Huntington Station -- My first dance -- Alpacuna -- The Spanish Civil War -- Marsha -- The Book Find Club -- Richard Seaver -- World War II -- Boot camp -- Going overseas -- About the book -- After the war -- Starting out -- Frankfurt -- The Tale of Genji -- American artists -- Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe -- The question -- Michael Kruger on my 80th birthday -- The Hours of Catherine of Cleves -- Janet Frame -- "Pretty Diane" -- Meyer Schapiro -- The interns -- Miró -- Nathalie Sarraute -- Richard Howard -- Ronald Glasser's 365 days -- Ned Rorem -- The Brooklyn Book Festival Award -- Unsolicited manuscripts -- Great drawings of the Louvre Museum -- Orhan Pamuk -- Alessandra Comini -- Let America be America again -- Albert Einstein -- Will Barnet -- Australia -- Salman Rushdie -- Samuel Menasche -- Fresco cycles of the Renaissance -- From haven to home -- Afghanistan -- Marc Chagall -- Anselm Kiefer -- Dorothea Tanning -- Architecture -- Hercules Segers -- One hundred famous views of Edo -- Greece -- Ben Shahn -- Anne Frank -- William Caxton's Metamorphoses -- Huffington Post -- Pablo Picasso -- Henri Matisse's Jazz -- Cry out : poets protest the war -- Richard Minsky -- Norman Rosten -- Jim's painting -- Golf -- "The tyranny of time" -- Dialogue -- Diderot -- Looking back.