Robert Gottlieb

Robert Adams Gottlieb ( born April 29, 1931 in New York) is an American writer and journalist. From 1987 to 1992 he was chief editor of the magazine The New Yorker.

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Life and career

Robert Gottlieb was born in 1931 in New York City. He grew up in Manhattan. He studied at Columbia University and Cambridge University. In 1955, he was with Simon and Schuster working with Jack Goodman, the former chief editor.

Gottlieb is married to the actress Maria Tucci, the couple has two children.

Gottlieb discovered the novel Catch-22 of the hitherto largely unknown Joseph Heller. He was senior editor at Simon & Schuster and later at Alfred A. Knopf. He left the publishing button 1987 and was editor in chief of New York as successor to William Shawn, he remained in that capacity in 1992.

Gottlieb proofreading novels of John Cheever, Salman Rushdie, John Gardner, Len Deighton, John le Carre, Ray Bradbury, Elia Kazan, Margaret Drabble, Michael Crichton, Mordecai Richler and Toni Morrison out, and also non-fiction books of Barbara Tuchman, Jessica Mitford, Antonia Fraser, Lauren Bacall, Liv Ullmann, Sidney Poitier, John Lennon, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Bruno Bettelheim, and many others and gave them out.

The American literary magazine The Paris Review did an interview with Gottlieb and published this in his series of interviews mt -known writer, with Gottlieb is the only editor and publisher that has been taken into account. The interview was published in Volume 1 of the collection of these interviews, which consists of four volumes and is published by Picador. The interview is also available to read online.

Operation

In an interview with the Paris Review, Gottlieb remarked in 1994, he had to book a " result ". "So much the more one gives, the more nervous one error. Manuscripts I read very quickly, as soon as I get them. Normally I use the first reading a pencil, I read only to have a first impression., When I 've read the end, I'll call the author and say that I think it's very good ( or whatever in the way ), but that I "here" and "here" see weaknesses. at this time I do not know why I think that, I think it simply. then I read the manuscript again, more slowly, looking for the places that had triggered negative reactions in me, and trying to figure out what was in each case the cause. I highlight these points. in this second passage think I solutions - maybe this part should be expanded, perhaps there is too much of " this " so that "that" is impaired.

Others

For many years, Gottlieb attended as a board member for the New York City Ballet. Along the same lines were different books by authors who were active in dance like Mikhail Baryshnikov and Margot Fonteyn, the Gottlieb published. He also works as a critic in the field of dance for the New York Observer.

Writings

  • George Ballanchine: The Ballet Maker, HarperCollins / Atlas Books, Eminent Lives series, New York 2004, ISBN 0-06-075070-7
  • Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, Yale University Press, Jewish Lives series, New Haven, Conn. ( inter alia ) 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-14127-6

As editor

  • Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticizm, Profiles, Interviews, and some Uncategorizable Tools, edited and with a foreword by Robert Gottlieb, Pantheon Books 2008, ISBN 978-0-375-42122-8
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