President of the publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi talks with Beacon Press president Helene Atwan about his debut novel _Muse: A Novel_, a story about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both.
Jonathan Galassi is a lifelong veteran of the publishing world and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He lives in New York City.