It published literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction, cultural analysis, poetry, and books of interest to a general audience.
That same year Gollob left, the press published the first book written by Bill Moyers, who was just beginning his work for PBS.
Under Freundlich, it published the first books of and Fred Feldkamp, Phyllis Feldkamp, Philip J. Hilts, Mark Lipman, Lev Navrozov, Richard Selzer, Nancy Hunter Steiner, Richard Shulman, Ferris Urbanowski, and Min S. Yee.
[10] She went on to publish seven more books, shape Italian cuisine in the U.S., and win lifetime achievement awards from both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (2000, 2004).
In 1974, the press had its greatest critical and commercial success with another new author: Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which sold extraordinarily well, was made a Book of the Month Club main selection.