Carl Van Vechten’s famous 1932 photographic portrait of Blanche and Alfred Knopf.
As my father has noted many times over the last ten or fifteen years, there has been a grievous deterioration in what has been coming out under the Knopf imprint since at least the mid-1990s.
The death of Knopf as a serious publishing house coincided exactly with the death of The New Yorker as a serious magazine, hardly a coincidence to anyone following the publishing field.
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