Richard Wollheim's memoir of his childhood, roughly a third of which appeared in two recent issues of the London Review (15 April and 20 May), is to be published in its entirety in September by the Waywiser Press. In his obituary of Wollheim in the Independent last November, John Richardson wrote that Germs - which Wollheim thought 'the best piece of work' he had 'ever done' - 'must not be allowed to become a chef d'oeuvre inconnu'. Now it will not, though Waywiser is a very small publisher without the marketing or distribution clout of the many larger, mainstream firms - including the famously highbrow Faber - that turned Wollheim's book down.

LRB 24 June 2004 | PDF Download