If you have any interest in the publishing world, you may want to read New York Magazine’s profile of Ann Godoff, president of Random House. She rose up from the publishing ranks and has created huge successes, even after Bertelsmann purchased them in 1998. Writers compliment her treatment of them: “She’s a publisher, fairy godmother, and shrink, like a mix between a sergeant major and the teacher at school who really believes in you.” But she declined to be interviewed herself, preferring to remain actual size, rather than become one of those larger than life publishing celebrities. (p.s. GirlHacker’s Random Log is in no way affiliated with Random House. But they are welcome to pay me to publish this. Or anything else.)