This article in the Chronicle profiling Malcolm Margolin, founder and head of Heyday Books, interested me in no small part because I interned there right after college back in 1992. There was a recession then, and it took me a long time to get off my butt and land gainful employment. Luckily, my supervisor at the time, a woman named Tracey, let me lay out some of their flyers in PageMaker 4.0, which gave me DTP skills, and that and the Malcolm connection eventually landed me a job doing print production at Home Energy magazine in Berkeley. And the rest is not very interesting history.
Heyday published great stuff then, as they continue to do today. Their magazine News From Native California has been joined by Bay Nature, and they continue to publish beautifully produced books about native americans, ecology, and California history. (I suspect they've long since stopped using PageMaker 4.)
Malcolm doesn't look or sound like he's changed a bit! Although... "micromanager" is not how I would have ever described him...
