James Mustich Jr.

1,000 Books is the most recent offering in Workman Publishing's "1,000" brand.

In 2017, Mustich became the founding executive producer of the Barnes & Noble Podcast, for which he has conducted interviews with writers such as Questlove,[7] Nassim Nicholas Taleb,[8] Lidia Bastianich,[9] Steven Pinker,[10] and Michael Wolf.[11]

In 2007, Mustich was founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Review, an online literary journal.[12] As editor of the Review he has conducted in-depth interviews with many leading authors, including Philip Roth,[13] Salman Rushdie,[14] Philip Pullman,[15] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,[16] Neal Stephenson,[17] Richard Price,[18] Elmore Leonard,[19] Azar Nafisi,[20] and Robert Caro.[21]

In 1986, Mustich co-founded the mail-order book catalog A Common Reader': Books for Readers with Imagination', and served as its president and publisher until the business was closed in 2006.[22] During its two-decade run, the catalog was published up to 17 times each year and listed hundreds of titles in each issue, each with its own write-up.[23] A Common Reader circulated to hundreds of thousands of readers and at its peak sold over 300,000 books a year.[24] Its in-house imprint, Akadine Press, republished over 60 out-of-print books by such authors as Lillian Beckwith, Alice Thomas Ellis, Barbara Holland, Reynolds Price, and John Ciardi.[25]

Mustich graduated from Princeton University in 1977.

"Book Expo 2018: James Mustich: Man On a Mission"

• "1,000 Books to Read"
• "The Ultimate Literary Bucket List" (Washington Post, September 26, 2018)
• "What It's Like to Write A Book Full of Books" (LitHub, October 10, 2018)
• "Using a Reading List to Measure a Life" (Chicago Tribune, November 14, 2018)