"Here is the largest, most comprehensive, and most stimulating collection of writings on jazz ever published." "The first of Reading Jazz's three parts is autobiographical, and in it such central jazz figures as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, …
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Compiles autobiographical sketches, profiles, and criticism by and about jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
"Here is the largest, most comprehensive, and most stimulating collection of writings on jazz ever published." "The first of Reading Jazz's three parts is autobiographical, and in it such central jazz figures as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, …
"Comprehensive and intelligently organized. ... Jazz aficionados ... should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review "Alluring. ... Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has…
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 dis…
Robert 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, he is still at it - editing, anthologising, a…
"The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine, "--NoveList
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 dis…
"The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine, "--NoveList
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 dis…
