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Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb.
Van Pelt Library PN149.9.G68 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023.
- Gottlieb, Robert.
- Book editors--United States--Biography.
- Book editors.
- Periodical editors--United States--Biography.
- Periodical editors.
- United States.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine,"--NoveList.
- After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors. Now he writes with wit and candor about succeeding William Shawn as the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine.
- Contents:
- Reading
- Learning
- Working: Simon and Schuster
- Working: Knopf
- Working: The New Yorker
- Working: Knopf redux
- Dancing
- Writing
- Living.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374279929
- 0374279926
- OCLC:
- 932060316
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