Corner Office: Editor Ascendant: Michael Pietsch
Hachette's heir apparent talks about his new role, merger-mania, running the author's gauntlet and getting ribbed by Keith Richards.
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Lynn Rosen
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Pietsch joined Little, Brown in 1991, was appointed Editor in Chief in 1998 and became Little, Brown's Publisher in 2001. Just a few of the many celebrated writers he has worked with are James Patterson, Keith Richards, Anita Shreve, Janet Fitch, Chad Harbach, Rick Moody, Donna Tartt, Mark Leyner, Stacy Schiff, John Feinstein and cartoonist R. Crumb. He worked with David Foster Wallace on his monumental novel Infinite Jest and edited his posthumous novel The Pale King, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. On April 1 he will step into the role of CEO of the Hachette Book Group. Here Pietsch shares some thoughts about his career with Book Business.
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