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A Bite of the Apple
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
Taschenbuch von Lennie Goodings
Sprache: Englisch

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In this insightful memoir Lennie Goodings takes the reader behind the scenes at Virago, the feminist press that she has led for twenty years. Moving from Virago's early days of independence, through its various commercial incarnations, the author reflects on idealistic publishing and how it feels to be a beacon for change.
In this insightful memoir Lennie Goodings takes the reader behind the scenes at Virago, the feminist press that she has led for twenty years. Moving from Virago's early days of independence, through its various commercial incarnations, the author reflects on idealistic publishing and how it feels to be a beacon for change.
Über den Autor
Lennie Goodings is Chair of the UK publishing house Virago Press. Her authors include, amongst many others, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Sarah Waters, Natasha Walter, Sandi Toksvig and Marilynne Robinson. Goodings was part of Virago's management buy-out team of five who created a newly independent Virago in 1987 and became the Publishing Director in 1992. In 1995 Virago was sold to Little, Brown where Goodings remained the Publisher and Editorial Director. She stepped back from that position in 2017 and became Virago Chair, still editing and commissioning her authors. Lennie Goodings won the Bookseller's Industry Award: Editor and Imprint of the Year in 2010; in 2018, A Lifetime's Achievement Award at WOW, London's Southbank Women of the World festival and she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. Born in Canada, she came to London in her early twenties and has remained there since. She is married with two children.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Part One: A New Kind of Being

  • 1: First Bites: The early years

  • 2: Setting the world on fire

  • 3: The acceptable face of feminism? Why not!

  • Part Two: The Books

  • 4: The Virago Modern Classics

  • 5: Fuck the Patriarchy!: Nonfiction

  • 6: What Stories Can Do: Fiction

  • Part Three: The Politics: office and otherwise

  • 7: The Dramas

  • 8: Disrupting the old stories

  • 9: Beyond Borders

  • 10: Up, Down and Up Again

  • Part Four: The Power to Publish is a Wonderful Thing

  • 11: The Intimacy of Editing

  • 12: Does any other successful publisher get asked constantly if they are still necessary?

  • 13: Why can't a man read like a woman?

  • 14: Giving and taking courage

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198828747
ISBN-10: 0198828748
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goodings, Lennie
Hersteller: OXFORD UNIV PR
Maße: 196 x 130 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Lennie Goodings
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,29 kg
preigu-id: 122713848
Über den Autor
Lennie Goodings is Chair of the UK publishing house Virago Press. Her authors include, amongst many others, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Sarah Waters, Natasha Walter, Sandi Toksvig and Marilynne Robinson. Goodings was part of Virago's management buy-out team of five who created a newly independent Virago in 1987 and became the Publishing Director in 1992. In 1995 Virago was sold to Little, Brown where Goodings remained the Publisher and Editorial Director. She stepped back from that position in 2017 and became Virago Chair, still editing and commissioning her authors. Lennie Goodings won the Bookseller's Industry Award: Editor and Imprint of the Year in 2010; in 2018, A Lifetime's Achievement Award at WOW, London's Southbank Women of the World festival and she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. Born in Canada, she came to London in her early twenties and has remained there since. She is married with two children.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Part One: A New Kind of Being

  • 1: First Bites: The early years

  • 2: Setting the world on fire

  • 3: The acceptable face of feminism? Why not!

  • Part Two: The Books

  • 4: The Virago Modern Classics

  • 5: Fuck the Patriarchy!: Nonfiction

  • 6: What Stories Can Do: Fiction

  • Part Three: The Politics: office and otherwise

  • 7: The Dramas

  • 8: Disrupting the old stories

  • 9: Beyond Borders

  • 10: Up, Down and Up Again

  • Part Four: The Power to Publish is a Wonderful Thing

  • 11: The Intimacy of Editing

  • 12: Does any other successful publisher get asked constantly if they are still necessary?

  • 13: Why can't a man read like a woman?

  • 14: Giving and taking courage

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198828747
ISBN-10: 0198828748
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goodings, Lennie
Hersteller: OXFORD UNIV PR
Maße: 196 x 130 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Lennie Goodings
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,29 kg
preigu-id: 122713848
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