A Bite of the Apple
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2020. február 27.
- ISBN 9780198828754
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem318 oldal
- Méret 200x134x29 mm
- Súly 376 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
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.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politics, imagination, feminism, and business was the air we breathed . . .'
A Bite of the Apple is part-memoir, part history of Virago, and part thoughts on over forty years of feminist publishing. This is the story of how the authors and staff who, driven by passion, conviction and excitement, have made Virago Press one of the most important and influential English-language publishers in the world. Lennie Goodings has been with the iconic press founded by Carmen Callil almost since the start. First a publicist and then for over twenty years, publisher and editor, she has worked with extraordinary authors: Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Naomi Wolf and Maya Angelou among many others.
Virago has been a life-changer for Lennie Goodings - but certainly not only for her. Following the chronology of the press and the enormous breadth of the Virago titles published over these years, she sets her story in the context of feminism, and segues into thoughts on editing, post-feminism, reading, breaking boundaries, and the Virago Modern Classics. Virago lives within the tension between idealism and pragmatism; between sisterhood and celebrity; between watching feminism wax and wane at the same time as knowing so many of the battles are still to be won. This book is about how it felt to be there.
A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing, and of reading.
An immersive, lovingly written memoir, whose story resonates beyond publishing.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Part One: A New Kind of Being
First Bites: The early years
Setting the world on fire
The acceptable face of feminism? Why not!
Part Two: The Books
The Virago Modern Classics
Fuck the Patriarchy!: Nonfiction
What Stories Can Do: Fiction
Part Three: The Politics: office and otherwise
The Dramas
Disrupting the old stories
Beyond Borders
Up, Down and Up Again
Part Four: The Power to Publish is a Wonderful Thing
The Intimacy of Editing
Does any other successful publisher get asked constantly if they are still necessary?
Why can't a man read like a woman?
Giving and taking courage
