Alan Cheuse reviews The Last Days of Publishing, by Tom Engelhardt, who is a former New York trade book editor. The novel, his first, is about the shift from privately owned publishing houses to media conglomerates.
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Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.