This is in keeping with the vision of being the leading academic publishing house that sets the benchmark for academic, technical, and literary titles.

Black Swan occurs rarely in literary titles.

But their growth has been remarkable, their publishing savvy increases daily, and their lists include some of the finest literary titles available.

Lots of literary titles are on those German lists, and lots of hard-to-read books, too.

Persea Press publishes 12 to 15 new titles a year, mostly literary: poetry, first novels and occasionally second novels.

"And the profit margin on the art books is high enough to compensate for some of the more literary titles on our list."

There are even a few books, presumably as a concession to this being a book fair - and one or two of them are literary titles.

There were attempts by the government to ban this book and to strip Shahnon of his literary title.

At Farrar, Straus, for example, the number of literary titles has gone from 40 in 1985 to 52 this year.

Big advances for risky literary titles weren't the only problem.