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Author Gottlieb, Robert, 1931- author

Title Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Maine State Lib. Stacks  OFFSITE B G6865g 2016    MISSING  
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  B.G717Ga    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note BPL: Edith Richardson Fund.
Includes index
Contents Reading -- Learning -- Working: Simon and Schuster -- Working: Knopf -- Working: The New Yorker -- Working: Knopf redux -- Dancing -- Writing -- Living
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
Subject Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-
Book editors -- United States -- Biography
Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
OCLC # 932060316
ISBN # 9780374279929
0374279926