Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
By (Author) Michael Wilding
Giramondo Publishing Co
Giramondo Publishing Co
1st August 2011
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Publishing and book trade
823.3
Paperback
144
Width 150mm, Height 170mm
Wild and Woolley - A Publishing Memoir is Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. It is peppered with irreverent anecdotes and details - their publication of the best-selling manual All About Grass, the purchase of decommissioned panel vans for 'urgent book deliveries', accounts of long and boozy book launches - and with vivid portraits of some of the most important literary figures of the time.