Jonathan Galassi (Editor of Jesus' Son)

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Jonathan Galassi

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Seattle, Washington, The United States

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Jonathan Galassi born 1949 in Seattle, Washington, is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the eight major publishers in New York. He began his publishing career at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, moved to Random House in New York, and finally, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He joined FSG as executive editor in 1985, after being fired from Random House. Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and is now President and Publisher.

Galassi is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. He has translated and published the poetic works of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. His honors as a poet include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, and his activities include having been poetry editor for The Pari ...more

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	Jesus' Son: Stories (Picador Modern Classics, 3) by Denis Johnson, Jonathan Galassi (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 38,787 ratings — published 1992 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muse 2.74 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	School Days 2.88 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Left-handed: Poems 3.63 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The FSG Poetry Anthology by Jonathan Galassi (Editor), Robyn Creswell (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North Street and Other Poems 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morning Run 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Random Review 1982 by Jonathan Galassi, Jon G. Fisket liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DAVID SCHORR: FLYING CARPETS, New PAINTINGS, essay by GALASSI/RARE 2017, $200 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muse by Jonathan Galassi (2016-07-14) by Jonathan Galassi, unknown author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Being in love is arguably the least productive of human states.”
― Jonathan Galassi, Muse

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“He鈥檇 come to appreciate that writers were just like everyone else, except when they were more so. It sometimes seemed that they鈥檇 been able to develop their gifts thanks to a lack of inhibition, an inner permission to feel and react, that made them seem self-absorbed and insensitive to the existence of anyone else.”
― Jonathan Galassi, Muse

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“Don鈥檛 give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I鈥檓 a vindictive Jew!鈥� he鈥檇 bellow.”
― Jonathan Galassi, Muse

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