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Veteran editors Cindy Spiegel (far left) and Julie Grau plan to experiment with publishing across different mediums with their own imprint.
PHOTO: NYTIMES
NEW YORK • Last year, after Penguin Random House shut down the literary imprint Spiegel & Grau, veteran editors Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau pondered what to do next.
Splitting up was never something they considered. The duo have worked together for the past 25 years, first as founding editors and publishers of Riverhead Books, where they helped launch the careers of writers like Khaled Hosseini, James McBride and Gary Shteyngart; and later, at their eponymous imprint, where they published pivotal works by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara Demick and Yuval Noah Harari.
