SOURCE: Garrett, George. “American Publishing Now.” Sewanee Review 96, no. 3 (summer 1988): 516-17.

In the following excerpt, Garrett provides a positive assessment of Busch's When People Publish.

These wildly different books are, in one way and another, devoted to publishing and the contemporary scene in publishing—or, at least, they profess to be dealing with publishing. Of course, either way, and perhaps this is appropriate, considering the ostensible subject, you can be fooled.

For instance, it is hard to believe that Frederick Busch and his publisher, the University of Iowa Press, didn't set out to sucker somebody with When People Publish. The dustjacket, among other things, advertises a couple of Iowa's recent books about publishing: Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers and Alternative Literary Publishing: Five Modern Histories. The jacket, taken together with the title of this book, might—except to a hardboiled cynic or a kid brought...