 After Viking, he became the president and publisher of Holt, Rinehart and Winston's trade division and then started his own company Arcade Publishing.In his memoir, Seaver recalls the moment in 1952, when he wrote a first, and seminal essay extolling the work of then-unknown Samuel Beckett.He was 25 and had just finished reading the novels "Molloy" and "Malone Dies", which he believed were masterpieces