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Author Gottlieb, Robert, 1931- author
Title Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb
Publ&date New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
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book jacket
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 ADULT  92 GOTTLIEB Robert    AVAILABLE

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Edition First edition
ISBN 9780374279929 hardcover
0374279926 hardcover
9780374713904 (e-book)
NUMBER 40026553104
Descript 337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content Reading -- Learning -- Working : Simon and Schuster -- Working : Alfred A. 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
Note Includes index
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