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Stet : An Editor's Life by Athill, Diana, Athill, Diane is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stet : An Editor's Life about?

A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing “should please anyone who cares about twentieth-century literature” (The Washington Post Book World). For nearly five decades, Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language, among them V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler, Molly Keane, and Norman Mailer. A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house André Deutsch Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate insider's portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books—spiced with candid insights about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers, and the idiosyncrasies of both. It is both “wryly humorous” (The New York Times Book Review) and “full of history, wisdom, and dirt” (The Boston Globe). “This is not literary life as we know it today—huge advances, showbiz and vast conglomerates—but the world of small literary houses... An enveloping blast of nostalgia: read and marvel at what we (all of us) are missing.” —Marie Claire “

Who reads Stet : An Editor's Life?

Author

Athill, Diana, Athill, Diane

Publisher

Grove Press : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ; Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781862074408

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Language Learning, Computer Science

Rating

3.93 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13