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　　“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just

said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random.

Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this

wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing

house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit

and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes

the heady days of Random House’s first decades.

Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who

revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped

usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality,

whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer,

radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of

the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?)

helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and

enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and

to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book

publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of

legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph

Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for

bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a

publishing house.

Page

Birth announcement

Bennett with father, October 1, 1899

At about age four

At about age six

At about age twelve

With mother and father

With father at Pikes Peak, September 6, 1914

The freshman

At Camp Lee, Virginia

Illustration for Jester cover, December, 1917

Editor of Jester, surrounded by some members of the staff

Bennett

Uncle Herbert

Richard Simon. Courtesy of Helen Barrow

Thomas R. Smith

Dorothy Parker

Theodore Dreiser

Ralph Barton's catalogue cover

Horace Liveright at work

Samuel Hopkins Adams (alias Warner Fabian)

Anita Loos

Uncle Herbert and "Pop"

Announcing a new partnership: Cerf and Klopfer

Alfred A. Knopf

Cover and title page, new Modern Library catalogue

Francis Meynell. Cambridge University Library

Cover of Announcement Number One

Title page and colophon, Candide

Rockwell Kent's invitation for a party

Eugene O'Neill

Bennett and Eugene O'Neill

Robinson Jeffers. Photograph by Edward Weston. Courtesy ofCole

Weston

James Joyce. Ruth Asch. Courtesy of The Viking Press, Inc.

On the beach at Le Touquet

Book-of-the-Month Club mailing, 1941

　　Bennett Cerf was born in 1898 in Manhattan and graduated from

Columbia University with a degree in journalism. In 1925 he

acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the

foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major

figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Bennett

Cerf died in 1971.

　　Christopher Cerf is an author, editor, and Emmy- and

Grammy-winning songwriter and television producer. A longtime

contributor to Sesame Street, and cofounder and creative

producer of the PBS literacy-education series Between the

Lines, Christopher Cerf is a former contributing editor of

National Lampoon and a former senior editor at Random

House.

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书籍介绍

“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades.

一家成功的出版社内部有些什么传奇故事？

Bennett Cerf的回忆录告诉我们，现实比小说更精彩。他讲述了兰登书屋的创立与发展，以及他与多位著名作家的故事，其中包括福克纳，萧伯纳，乔伊斯等等。