![]() ![]() ![]() In the first picture, the parental figure departs, telling Carl to take care of the baby. The basic premise of each Carl book, of which there are now four, is very simple. The Nobel Committee may not have heard of a Rottweiler named Carl or his creator, Alexandra Day, but a significant slice of juvenile America has. This is where the real money is made: Carl's Afternoon in the Park, plus reissues of Carl Goes Shopping and Carl's Christmas, will be sent forth in a combined strength of nearly a million copies. But if you added the print run of all the above-mentioned eminent authors together, the total wouldn't reach that of the three picture books coming from a single FSG children's author. There will also be work by a strong bench of younger novelists ranging from Angela Carter to Jonathan Franzen, plus an assortment of sure-to-be-distinguished nonfiction. This fall alone, FSG is publishing folks that could win the next Nobel Prize with no astonishment to anyone (Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Carlos Fuentes) along with an equal number who have already snagged the award (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Czeslaw Milosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer). Aside from a Persian Gulf spinoff or two, its list is redolent of high culture. FARRAR, Straus and Giroux is the most unreservedly literary of major American publishers. ![]()
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