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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daniel Menaker started as a fact checker at The New Yorker in 1969. With luck, hard work, and the support of William Maxwell, he was eventually promoted to editor. Never beloved by William Shawn, he was advised early on to find a position elsewhere; he stayed for another twenty-four years. Now Menaker brings us a new view of life in that wonderfully strange place and beyond, throughout his more than forty years working to celebrate language and good...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a multimillion-dollar bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the nagging in her mind that told her that all she had worked for could...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dilettante reveals Brown's most memorable moments from the halcyon days of the magazine business, explores his own journey as an unpedigreed outsider to established editor, and shares glimpses of some of the famous and infamous stories (and people) that tracked the magazine's extraordinary run all keenly observed by Brown. He recounts tales from the trenches, including encounters with everyone from Anna Wintour, Lee Radziwill, and Condé Nast owner...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Ed Breslin was a down-on-his-luck alcoholic until he bought a dog, Miss Dutchie. Caring for Miss Dutchie helped Ed overcome his drinking problem and completely reform his life. Here, he tells his heart-moving story.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
This rare glimpse into the life of the innovative fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue who, redefining women's sense of beauty and style, launched the careers of such timeless beauties as Lauren Bacall and Lauren Hutton, explores her originality, her tenacity and her inimitable sensibility--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life, her nineteen year editorial career. History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. This book focuses...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
18) A.L.T: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) Mencken: a life
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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