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From the Editors @ Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Lorin Stein

A champion of the "outwardly eccentric" on mass appeal, the Home Land saga, and the strange economics of FSG.

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – June 20, 2005

Title: Editor
Age: 32
Previous publishing experience: Stein has been an editor at FSG for nearly seven years and worked previously as a book reviewer.

Mediabistro: Tell me about the kinds of books you work on.

Stein: Three-quarters of the books I've worked on are nonfiction. They include biographies of Arshile Gorky and Isaac Babel, a memoir of the poet Frank O'Hara by his roommate (Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara), the autobiography of a Sufi mystic (I, Wabenzi), a study of horses in human life by a young scholar of 18th-century French utopianism (Blood ...

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