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, Gottlie...
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.
作者简介
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Robert Gottlieb has been the editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker. He is the author of Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhard, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, Lives and Letters (FSG, 2011), and Great Expectations and is the dance critic for The New York Observer.
本文译自《华盛顿邮报》（The Washington Post），作者 Michael Dirda，发表于September 14, 2016。侵删。 在我的办公桌上，一个装满铅笔的咖啡杯旁，我放着一个领扣，上面写着：“生活？当然，我有生活。一个充满了书的生活。”而对此，你不会找到一个比罗伯特·戈特利布的回...
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4 有用 魔幻的中型笨蛋 2017-01-22 19:25:47
too whiny那些八卦感觉莫名其妙就被扔进书里。文笔质感一般，且作者的attention span肯定很短（
1 有用 cellocello 2019-12-22 13:19:17
快翻译完了。
0 有用 索马里 2019-04-08 21:30:55
今年（迄今为止）最好读物，作为service job的编辑本职。眼花缭乱的人际往来，个人兴趣那堆描述另说
0 有用 francesfinnn 2020-12-24 20:30:17
“Not since Look Homeward,Angel has there been an editorial feat like this ”
0 有用 Evanescence 2020-12-03 20:41:08
读了四分之一，写得太琐碎，没有多少重点，文笔也并不特别好。
0 有用 francesfinnn 2020-12-24 20:30:17
“Not since Look Homeward,Angel has there been an editorial feat like this ”
0 有用 ZZ 2020-12-11 09:19:30
围绕书展开的一生，从小爱看书，学业有成后找到的工作是编辑和出版书籍，当然，自己也写书。
0 有用 Evanescence 2020-12-03 20:41:08
读了四分之一，写得太琐碎，没有多少重点，文笔也并不特别好。
1 有用 cellocello 2019-12-22 13:19:17
快翻译完了。
0 有用 索马里 2019-04-08 21:30:55
今年（迄今为止）最好读物，作为service job的编辑本职。眼花缭乱的人际往来，个人兴趣那堆描述另说