MEMBER BLOG TAG: manhattan
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:14PM | | | | From, Stealing Fire | Tags: Manhattan Project, Atomic Espionage, Saville Sax, Stealing Fire, James Baldwin
| | | The following is an excerpt from my memoir Stealing Fire: A Childhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage to be published in late 2008 by Ad Infinitum Press. I recount how my father Saville (or “Savy”) Sax became a spy for the Russians at the Manhattan Project, and how the practical and psychological consequences of espionage affected his childhood. Bluma Sax is the mother of Saville and my grandmother. She had emigrated with her husband from what is now the Ukraine at the end of the nineteenth century and become a Communist. Boria Sax
Old Ways in... | | | | | | | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:34AM | | | | losing steven florio | Tags: steven t. florio, steven florio, sadi ranson, sadi ranson-polizzotti, advance publications, the new yorker, gq, esquire, gentleman's quarterly, publishing, ceos, ceo, mentor, friend, dear friend, vogue, american vogue, vogue magazine, united states, new york, manhattan, mentor, mentoring, sarah heleina ranson-polizzotti, oyster bay, conde nast, conde nast publications, death, obit, memories, eulogy, rememberance,
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 It is a lonely feeling to lose anyone - lovers, friends, family and in any way, however you lose someone is a death. To lose a mentor tho, how does one begin to express what this feels like?
Were it not for Steven T. Florio I would not be in book publishing or publishing in any way. I always knew I would be a writer, but I never for a minute believed I could succeed as a publisher, as an editor, editorial director, acquisitions editor, etc - the myriad jobs I have held so far in my career - and I never thought that I would see to publish my work with some fair measure... | | | | | |
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