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Another hilarious #audiobook ... this time #ayearinprovence by #petermayle #nypl (at Rue Ginoux)

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Peter Mayle: “My Quarter Century with Knopf”

It started luckily and well. My favorite London publisher, Sonny Mehta, had decided to move across the Atlantic to join Alfred Knopf. At some point soon after that—I’m not sure when exactly—my guardian angel must have given Sonny a copy of the English edition of A Year In Provence, and he and his colleagues in New York liked it. I was thrilled to have such a distinguished American publisher and, even after all these years, I still am.

There are several reasons for this. Perhaps the most important is that, in a business often resembling musical chairs, people tend to stay at Knopf. Jon Segal, my long-suffering editor, has been dotting my i’s, crossing my t’s and improving my efforts for twenty-five years, and he is by no means the only person at Knopf who deserves a long-service medal. This is very comforting for an author, and it produces better books.

Another unfair advantage enjoyed by Knopf authors is the care and attention they receive during book tours. I’ve done ten of these marathons in the U.S., sometimes as many as 18 cities in 21 days, and I shall never forget the efficiency and good humor of the people who shuttled me from airport to radio station to bookstore to TV station and back to the airport. They turned an ordeal into an adventure.

Then there are the small but infinitely satisfying details that one finds in every Knopf book. The paper is always a good weight, something you appreciate every time you turn a page. The margins are generous. The typography is immaculate. The jacket designs are imaginative and appropriate for the subject. So Knopf books are like the very best literary furniture, a pleasure to look at and a joy to own. So bravo to all you Knopfers, and keep it up. Your authors need you.

                      —Peter Mayle

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[grainy-memory]

There's something you should know about me, Max. I'm very, very choosy... I'm also very, very suspicious; very, very irrational, and I have a very, very short temper. I'm also extremely jealous and slow to forgive. Just so you know.

Fanny Chenal in A Good Year