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Avid Reader: A Life

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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 point he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he used to be the editor in chief, having came upon 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–to not 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 The us’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 features a lifelong involvement with the world of dance. It is about transcendent friendships and collaborations, “elective affinities” and circle of relatives, psychoanalysis and Bakelite purses, the alchemical relationship between creator and editor, the glory days of publishing, and–all the time–the sheer exhilaration of work.

Photograph of Bob Gottlieb © by Jill Krementz

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