Faber Today
Faber and Faber has continued to prosper in recent years. Established names have been joined by new voices including Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Carey, Orhan Pamuk and Barbara Kingsolver, and its arts lists continue to break new talent in poetry, drama, film and music. Having published the theatrical works of Samuel Beckett for many years, the company acquired the rights to the remainder of his oeuvre from the publishing house of John Calder in 2007. In a surprise move, Faber announced in October 2011 that Jarvis Cocker, lead singer with Pulp would be joining as Editor-at-Large, an appointment echoing a similar role taken up by Pete Townshend of The Who in the 1980s.
In 2008 the imprint Faber Finds was set up to make copyrighted out-of-print books available again, using print-on-demand technology. Authors republished in the imprint have included works of the Mass-Observation archives, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson, A. J. P. Taylor, H. G. Wells, Joyce Cary, Nina Bawden, Jean Genet, P. H. Newby, Louis MacNeice, John Carey, F. R. Leavis, Jacob Bronowski, Jan Morris and Brian Aldiss. In 2009 Faber Finds began to roll out an e-book programme.
Faber's American arm was sold in 1998 to Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where it remains an active imprint focusing on arts, entertainment, media, and popular culture.
In June 2012, to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Faber launched a new website - Sixty Years in Sixty Poems. Commissioned for The Space - the new digital arts platform developed by the Arts Council in partnership with the BBC - 'Sixty Years in Sixty Poems' takes the poems from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's anthology, Jubilee Lines, and interprets them using actors' recordings, sound-based generative design and archive film footage.
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