Avid reader
Subtitle: a life
By: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781250141057
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Periodical editors; Book editors; Biography; History
Description: After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert 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, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited a long 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. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb writes about succeeding William Shawn as the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine. Sixty years after joining Simon and Schuster, Gottlieb is still at it -- editing, anthologizing, and, to his surprise, writing.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Reading; title: Learning; title: Working; title: Simon and Schuster; title: Knopf; title: The New Yorker; title: Knopf redux; title: Dancing; title: Writing; title: Living.