James Mustich Jr. |
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 James mustich |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) |
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| Notable works | 1,000 Books To Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List |
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James Mustich, Jr. is a bookseller, editor, and writer. In October 2018, Mustich's book 1,000 Books To Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List was published by Workman Publishing, [1] receiving starred reviews from Publishers Weekly [2] , Booklist [3] , and Library Journal, [4] as well as the praise of other notable independent reviewers [5] . The Washington Post listed it as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the year. [6]
Biography
Mustich graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude in 1977. He married Margot Greenbaum, who was a year below him at Princeton, in 1986. [7]
In 1986, Mustich co-founded the mail-order book catalog A Common Reader': Books for Readers with Imagination', and served as its president and publisher until the business was closed in 2006. [8] During its two-decade run, the catalog was published up to 17 times each year and listed hundreds of titles in each issue, each with its own write-up. [9] A Common Reader circulated to hundreds of thousands of readers and at its peak sold over 300,000 books a year. [10] Its in-house imprint, Akadine Press, republished over 60 out-of-print books by such authors as Lillian Beckwith, Alice Thomas Ellis, Barbara Holland, Reynolds Price, and John Ciardi. [11]
In 2007, Mustich was founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Review , an online literary journal. [12] As editor of the Review he has conducted in-depth interviews with many leading authors, including Philip Roth, [13] Salman Rushdie, [14] Philip Pullman, [15] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, [16] Neal Stephenson, [17] Richard Price, [18] Elmore Leonard, [19] Azar Nafisi, [20] and Robert Caro. [21]
In 2017, Mustich became the founding executive producer of the Barnes & Noble Podcast, for which he has conducted interviews with writers such as Questlove, [22] Nassim Nicholas Taleb, [23] Lidia Bastianich, [24] Steven Pinker, [25] and Michael Wolf. [26]
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