Avid Reader: A Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374279926 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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As a writer, he contributes frequently to The New York Review of Books and is the author of books about George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt, and Charles Dickens. In 2015, Gottlieb was presented the award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. . Robert Gottlieb has been the editor in chief of Simon and Schuster; the pr
Denny Hatch said A nerdy New Yawk kid grows up to become the greatest editor in the history of the world. By the time he was four, Bob Gottleib’s grandfather had taught him to read. Whereupon he became a compulsive reader, spending his entire boyhood, adolescence and college years skipping class and with his nose in hundreds of books. The regimen was broken only by spending what little money he had sitting in the cheapest seats of Broadway plays and mus. "Enjoyable, breezy memoir: lots of anecdotes, little depth" according to Laurence R. Bachmann. Robert Gottlieb's memoir of his career in publishing is an entertaining, gushy look back at a legendary career. This is a fellow with a Will Rogers-like affinity for all sorts, and if there are a few men and women he didn't like (that would be you Salman Rushdie), his disparagements are always gentlemanly. I have no doubt of his sincerity--one has to have. old trust…the dog said A Must-Read for Booklovers!. This wonderful book races along.don't fall off! If you are a booklover you will be charmed by Mr. Gottlieb's life, and his good fortune to live that life just as he dreamed. This reader is having such a good time as he shares his memories!
Almost incidentally, Gottlieb scatters suggestions about successful writing and editing techniques and, above all, how to maintain a productive author-editor collaboration. For lovers of literature and devotees of the New Yorker, this memoir is likely to prove endlessly captivating." Kirkus Reviews"A canny, exuberant memoir Gottlieb's portraits of the literati are vivid, usually generous, and always clear-eyed His depictions of editing sessions really shine as he describes helping each author sculpt a book into its ideal form, and he conveys the enormous energy and creativity of American publishing." Publishers Weekly“Gottlieb has had a career that could fill several memoirs.” The Millions – Most Anticipated preview, Fall 2016. After all, not since Max Perkins worked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald has there been a more admired editor than Robert Gottlieb. The most acclaimed editor of the second half of the 20th c
Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb 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. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton--not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy