Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb.
Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Call Numbers
G 2017/118
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Reading -- Learning -- Working: Simon and Schuster -- Working: Knopf -- Working: The New Yorker -- Working: Knopf redux -- Dancing -- Writing -- Living.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2016.
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Scope and Contents
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 can...
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Full title
Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb.
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Notes
General note
Includes index.
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G 2017/118
Record Identifier
74VKVvl34qx3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVvl34qx3
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ISBN
0374279926 hardcover
9780374279929 hardcover
DDC
070.51092 B
MMS ID
991024040512102626
