Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell on Randall Jarrell -- Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane -- Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein -- Dwight MacDonald on Delmore Schwartz -- Alfred Kazin on Josephine Herbst -- Jason Epstein on Edmund Wilson -- Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman -- Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani -- Robert Craft on Stravinsky -- Saul Bellow on John Cheever -- Mary McCarthy on F.W. Dupee -- Derek Walcott on Robert Lowell -- Darryl Pinckney on Djuna Barnes -- Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas -- Prudence Crowther on S.J. …”
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“…At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carre, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton - not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy. ln 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. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "Un día de 1996, inspirado por «El nadador» de John Cheever, Roger Deakin emprendió el sueño de su vida: recorrer las islas británicas a nado. …”

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