Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
editors different our-relationship
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
strong editors selfless
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
people fixed sentences
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
fate psychics murder-mysteries
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
art knowing ballet
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
naughty boys english-love
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
mean lunch editing
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
america nutcrackers december
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
endure transformed originals
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
meditation dying beloved
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
hard-work dancer actresses
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
judge
This is the right decision, and the judge should be commended.
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
kindness hard-work men
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.