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It is Tuesday, May 30, 2017, from Slate It's the Gist, with me, Leon Nefak filling in

for Mike Peska.

I'll tell you right up front, the first couple times I took a passage drafting this intro

I tried my hardest to channel TESKA.

As a devoted listener of the Gist, I know and love his signature cadence, his speed, and

his mastery with illuminating digressions.

And so I tried to match the Peska style, only to find out what I already knew, so there's

only one Mike Peska, and I am not him.

So I'm afraid you're stuck today with regular me, or a portrait slate who writes about the

Department of Justice.

On today's show, though, I'll be revisiting an old beat of mine, the book publishing industry.

It's part of a conversation with David Rosenthal, who worked for years as the head of the

flagship imprint in Simon & Schuster, before starting his own imprint at Penguin called

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