Avid Reader: A Life
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- 出版社 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 出版时间 2016年9月
- ISBN 0374279926 或 9780374279929
- 定价 210.30
内容简介
AspiritedandrevealingmemoirbythemostcelebratededitorofhistimeAftereditingTheColumbiaReview,stagingplaysatCambridge,andastintinthegreeting-carddepartmentofMacy's,RobertGottliebstumbledintoajobatSimonandSchuster.BythetimehelefttorunAlfredA.Knopfadozenyearslater,hewastheeditorinchief,havingdiscoveredandeditedCatch-22andTheAmericanWayofDeath,amongotherbestsellers.AtKnopf,Gottliebeditedanastonishinglistofauthors,includingToniMorrison,JohnCheever,DorisLessing,JohnleCarré,MichaelCrichton,LaurenBacall,KatharineGraham,RobertCaro,NoraEphron,andBillClinton--nottomentionBrunoBettelheimandMissPiggy.InAvidReader,GottliebwriteswithwitandcandoraboutsucceedingWilliamShawnastheeditorofTheNewYorker,andthechallengesandsatisfactionsofrunningAmerica'spreeminentmagazine.SixtyyearsafterjoiningSimonandSchuster,Gottliebisstillatit--editing,anthologizing,and,tohissurprise,writing.Butthisaccountofalifefoundeduponreadingisaboutmorethanthearcofasingularcareer--onethatalsoincludesalifelonginvolvementwiththeworldofdance.It'sabouttranscendentfriendshipsandcollaborations,"electiveaffinities"andfamily,psychoanalysisandBakelitepurses,thealchemicalrelationshipbetweenwriterandeditor,theglorydaysofpublishing,and--always--thesheerexhilarationofwork.PhotographofBobGottlieb©byJillKrementz
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