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Employee Cover Model of the Month: Paul Moliken

Name: Paul Moliken

Job at PH: Senior Editor

Nicknames: Mr. Know-It-All, Poker Champ, Culture Sox, Senile Editor, Sasquatch

Book Cover He’s Featured On: Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


Catch Phrases: “Ya know!,” “Whatta thing!,” “Astonishing!,” “Critters! [rubs hands together menacingly]”

 Favorite Book: This is a hard choice, but Lord of the Flies, The Last Temptation of Christ, Catch-22, Dune, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest just to name a few.

Favorite Childrens’ Book: Where the Wild Things Are and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Favorite Under-Taught Book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Separate Peace

Favorite Author: Classic? Shakespeare. Modern? Cormac McCarthy.


Favorite Poem: “Should the Wide World Roll Away” by Stephen Crane, and At the opposite end of the spectrum: Milton’s Paradise Lost

Favorite Movie Based on a Book: Shane, Lord of the Rings

Favorite Band/Music: Grateful Dead; there is no other live music worth hearing. Others include Sketches of Spain and Miles Davis.


Favorite Food: Vietnamese. I could exist on it and nothing else and never complain.

Favorite PH Product:  Literary Touchstone Classics

Favorite Literary Quote: “To be or not to be” — Everyone knows it, it says a great deal, and no word has over three letters.

One Random Fact: I am happier now than ever before in my life.

Thoughts about the Photo Shoot: Larry had me so much in the moment, it was difficult not to cudgel him with my cane, rip out his lungs, tear him limb from limb, consume various…ooops