{"id":6487,"date":"2014-10-27T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:22:55","slug":"unpublished-memoir-of-simon-schuster-co-founder-turns-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/unpublished-memoir-of-simon-schuster-co-founder-turns-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpublished Memoir of Simon &amp; Schuster Co-founder Turns Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/10\/SimonShuster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6489\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/10\/SimonShuster.jpg\" alt=\"SimonShuster\" width=\"311\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/10\/SimonShuster.jpg 572w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/10\/SimonShuster-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>Could it be that Simon &amp; Schuster co-founder Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Simon failed to find a publisher for his own book trade memoir? Simon and partner Max Schuster launched the book publishing house of Simon &amp; Schuster in New York City in 1924. An 84-page typescript document of Simon&#8217;s reminiscences, titled <i>Fools Give You Reasons<\/i>, dating to the late 1950s, is currently being offered in a rare book dealer&#8217;s catalog for $5,000. The fragmentary memoir discusses how he got into publishing, his thoughts on promotion and advertising, and his feelings about television&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finebooksmagazine.com\/fine_books_blog\/2014\/10\/unpublished-memoir-of-simon-schuster-co-founder-turns-up.phtml\">Read article<\/a> in <em>Fine Books and Collections<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that Simon &amp; Schuster co-founder Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Simon failed to find a publisher for his own book trade memoir? Simon and partner Max Schuster launched the book publishing house of Simon &amp; Schuster in New York City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/unpublished-memoir-of-simon-schuster-co-founder-turns-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}