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Auteur(s): Robert Gottlieb
Narrateur(s): Robert Gottlieb
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 A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time

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 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. 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. Sixty years after joining Simon and Schuster, Gottlieb is still at it--editing, anthologizing, and, to his surprise, writing.

But this account of a life founded upon reading is about more than the arc of a singular career--one that also includes a lifelong involvement with the world of dance. It's about transcendent friendships and collaborations, "elective affinities" and family, psychoanalysis and Bakelite purses, the alchemical relationship between writer and editor, the glory days of publishing, and--always--the sheer exhilaration of work.


Robert Gottlieb photographed by Jill Krementz at his desk in his office at Knopf on September 26, 1972; all rights reserved.
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Briskly told, congenially gossipy memoir by one of the most well-known editors of the 20th century. An immensely productive person, and someone to whom success came easily; very confident of his own abilities and his own judgment; a consumate professional; a cultural insider, with all the typical tastes and prejudices of the coastal upper middle classes; a "workaholic," I suppose, but someone who just loved his work; a true glutton for reading; and someone, it seems, with a talent for friendship and sociability. I'm not sure exactly why I decided (upon hearing of his death and of the existence of this book a couple of weeks ago) that I wanted to listen to this book, but I found it very congenial, interesting, well observed, and thoughtful. If you think you might like it, you probably will.

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