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Un día en la vida de un editor

Autor: Jorge Herralde Grau

Número de Páginas: 376

«Herralde creó una manera de leer y se inventó un modelo de lector. Pocos son los que alcanzan el Olimpo... Un espejo a lo largo del camino donde contemplar a un gran editor» (Fernando R. Lafuente, Abc Cultural). «Herralde, una voz propia... Libro-mosaico, el retrato personal y la cosmovisión profesional de un nombre fundamental de la historia e la edición europea» (Carles Geli, El País-Babelia). Prólogo de Silvia Sesé «He tenido la inmensa suerte de haber podido ejercer durante cincuenta años este oficio de locos, como lo llamó Inge Feltrinelli, y que también es el mejor oficio del mundo, como pensamos muchos», dice Jorge Herralde, y el oficio al que se refiere es, claro, el de editor. Este libro arranca precisamente con la minuciosa descripción de un día cualquiera en la vida de un editor. Y, a partir de ahí, una sucesión de textos de origen diverso artículos, discursos, entrevistas, entradas de diario...–componen un completísimo recorrido por los secretos del sector editorial y por la evolución y las entrañas de Anagrama desde su fundación en 1969 hasta el presente. El lector tendrá acceso a una visión de insider –perspicaz y con toques de fina...

Publisher

Autor: Tom Maschler

Número de Páginas: 340

At the end of the millennium, the leading British industry magazine, The Bookseller, selected the ten people who had most influenced its century. Tom Maschler—described as "the most important publisher in Britain; the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy"—was one of them. It went on to say that for nearly 20 years, "he made publishing glamorous." Over the course of his career, Maschler launched the careers of Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Gabriel García Márquez, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Bruce Chatwin, among others. From the party where Norman Mailer stabbed his wife to the porch where Ernest Hemingway shot himself, this frank and fascinating memoir affords a rare glimpse into the golden days of British publishing. An extraordinary literary memoir by one great publishers of the 20th century.

Julian Barnes from the Margins

Autor: Vanessa Guignery

Número de Páginas: 267

Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes – including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence – this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist. In Julian Barnes from the Margins, Vanessa Guignery charts the genesis and publication history of all of Barnes's major novels, from his debut with Metroland, through Flaubert's Parrot and A History of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters to The Sense of an Ending.

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018

Autor: Peter Boxall

Número de Páginas: 335

Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.

Pursuit

Autor: John Calder

Número de Páginas: 660

"e;Publish and be damned"e;, Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public notice the abuses of the armies and security forces of colonial countries. He took on American authors who could not be published in the United States during the McCarthy witch-hunt. He exposed the atrocities of the Algerian and other African wars, and produced many books on British political, social and moral issues, which only a totally independent publisher could have done.Born into the most conservative of establishment families, John Calder has always gone his own way - seeking out literary genius and creating a greater awareness of the world we inhabit. His publishing programme contained a large proportion of the leading writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Heinrich Boell and ...

Soy tu hombre. La vida de Leonard Cohen

Autor: Sylvie Simmons

Número de Páginas: 795

«Si queremos expresar la derrota común, procuremos hacerlo dentro de los límites estrictos de la dignidad y la belleza.» Leonard Cohen Cuando aún era un adolescente, Leonard Cohen se asomó un día al balcón de su casa en Montreal y oyó unos acordes de guitarra. El chico sentado en la hierba tocaba flamenco y durante unos días se convirtió en el primer maestro de Leonard. Desde entonces, paso a paso, Leonard Cohen fue forjando una carrera en la que los momentos estelares se alternaron con épocas oscuras, y en la que la música fue fiel aliada de la escritura. Canciones como «Suzane», «So Long, Marianne» o «Chelsea Hotel» nos acompañaron a lo largo del siglo XX y los poemas de Libro del anhelo resumen en pocas líneas emociones que no tienen fecha de caducidad. Muchos veneran a ese hombre que en 2011 fue galardonado con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias y que, hasta el día de su muerte, el 7 de noviembre de 2016, siguió dando la vuelta al mundo para estar cerca de su público. Cuando alguien le tachaba de pesimista, Cohen sonreía y soltaba una de sus frases memorables, que constituyen una lección de vida. Revisando estas palabras, entrevistando a la gente que le...

Martin Amis

Autor: Richard Bradford

Número de Páginas: 331

Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking manner of writing that owes nothing to the style of his father, nor indeed to anyone else. He relished and recorded the bizarre, turbulent atmosphere of Britain and the US during the 1970s and 80s, arguably the transformative period of the late 20th century. No other contemporary writer has proved so magnetic for the popular press: he has, despite himself, achieved celebrity status. Of late, his reputation as a novelist has been matched by his outspoken, challenging writing on contemporary global politics, and he has earned the status as the Orwell of the early 21st century. Martin Amis offers the real Martin Amis, a cabinet of contrasts: tortured, eloquently aloof, kind, obsessive, loved by women, a dedicated family man, often the architect of his own undoing, and a literary genius. Moreover, this fascinating biography discloses the autobiographical thread that runs through Amis's books. Richard Bradford has talked with Amis at length, questioned him on his childhood, his private...

Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision

Autor: Ann C. Hall

Número de Páginas: 202

“Art has a lot to answer for.” So says Sarah Bernhardt in Ronald Harwood’s play After the Lions. Harwood’s own career can be summarized by that same quote as well. Ronald Harwood’s Tragic Vision offers the first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author Ronald Harwood (1934–2020). Though he received an Oscar for The Pianist, a knighthood, and numerous other awards and nominations, Harwood worked as a ghostwriter, script doctor, and veritable unknown for many years. As he became successful, many critics still misread his works and positioned him as a less-fashionable counterpart to his lifelong friend Harold Pinter. This study proposes a conceptual framework to approach his, and others’, work based on the genre of tragedy, offering a greater appreciation for and understanding of the Harwood canon.

Historia de la música pop

Autor: Peter Doggett

Número de Páginas: 605

Un elegante, ameno y completo panorama de la música popular: desde el ragtime hasta el rock. Hay una lista autorizada de los más importantes eventos de la historia musical, que todos coincidimos en reconocer y una galería de álbumes clásicos y de singles capaces de cambiarnos la vida, de géneros vitales, de añoradas eras —eternamente nuevas, eternamente maduras— listas para ser descubiertas. ¿Qué escucha la gente? ¿De dónde viene lo que escuchan? ¿Por qué les gusta? ¿Qué añade a sus vidas? Aproximarse a la música con un espíritu parecido a la genuina democracia puede acercarnos a las cotas más altas de placer. Así que este libro trata, sin complejos, sobre música que ha demostrado ser popular —globalmente, racialmente, generacionalmente— en lugar de sobre la música que los críticos adscriben el máximo valor estético. Ambicioso y revolucionario, el libro nos cuenta la historia de la música popular, desde la primera grabación a finales del siglo XIX hasta el nacimiento de los Beatles en este primer volumen y la omnipresencia de la música en nuestras vidas. En esta montaña rusa que es la historia social y cultural y a través de sus personajes...

Storyteller

Autor: Donald Sturrock

Número de Páginas: 674

Originally published in hardcover in 2010.

Fine Meshwork

Autor: Dan O'brien

Número de Páginas: 293

In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as “a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction.” The phrase “fine meshwork” can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, including, most illuminatingly, Roth’s. Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Roth and O’Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In Fine Meshwork, Dan O’Brien investigates the shared concerns of these two authors, now regarded as literary icons in their home countries. He traces their fifty-year literary friendship and the striking parallels in their books and reception, bringing together what, at first glance, seem to be quite disparate milieus: the largely feminist and Irish scholarship on O’Brien with Jewish and American perspectives on Roth. In doing so, and in considering them in a transnational context, he argues that the...

Speak Well of Me

Autor: W. Sydney Robinson

Número de Páginas: 221

Sir Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) was one of the most prolific playwrights and screenwriters of his generation. His acclaimed play, The Dresser, has been constantly revived since its premiere in 1980 and has been adapted for both cinema and television, most recently the 2015 BBC production starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ian McKellen. Harwood's other notable film adaptations included Roman Polanski's haunting depiction of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, The Pianist (2002), Baz Luhrmann's frontier epic, Australia (2008), and Dustin Hoffman's poignant celebration of old age, Quartet (2012). His many awards included an Oscar for The Pianist and a BAFTA for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Speak Well of Me turns the focus onto Harwood himself. Based on extensive interviews with the playwright during his final years, the biography recounts Harwood's gradual transformation from lacklustre South African schoolboy to doyen of theatreland and Hollywood. While dissecting each of his major works, the book candidly explores Harwood's friendships with the likes of Harold Pinter, J. B. Priestley, André Previn, Sir Donald Wolfit (who inspired The Dresser) and, most controversially, Roman...

Just One Catch

Autor: Tracy Daugherty

Número de Páginas: 561

The New York Times bestselling writer Tracy Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of the Catch-22 author Joseph Heller Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships—he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, and many others among his confidantes. In 1981 Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a debilitating syndrome that could have cost him his life. Miraculously, he recovered. When he passed away in 1999 from natural causes, he left behind a body of work that continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year. Just One Catch is the first biography of Yossarian's...

Texturas Nº 15

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 140

Índice 01_Panfleto El arte de leer Leopoldo Alas «Clarín» 02_Opúsculo Homenaje al mérito editorial Jaume Vallcorba El camino hacia la revolución digital Jason Epstein Bibliotecas: tres jeremiadas Robert Darnton Cuando escribir ya no es suficiente Neus Arqués He escrito un libro... ¿y ahora qué? Álvaro Sobrino ¡Los ‘blurbs’ se plantan en sus libros! J. Dupuis, M. Payot & D. Peras La cola más larga: la curva de distribución de Amazon E. Brynjolfsson, Y. (Jeffrey) Hu & M. D. Smith 03_Libelo De eso no se habla Julieta Lionetti Falacias y mixtificaciones del precio fijo Manuel Gil . El precio fijo y único del libro Virginio Núñez Cano 04_Dazibao Miguel Martínez-Lage. In Memoriam 05_Pasquín Acta de la reunión celebrada el 29 de octubre de 2010 en el Castillo de Dux, Duchkov, República Checa (antigua Bohemia) Joaquín Rodríguez Excavaciones librescas Juan Ángel Juristo Cálida si gélida Agustín Delgado 06_Octavilla Confesiones de un vendedor de libros usados Michael Savitz 07_Prospecto Libros y blogs

Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman

Autor: William Stephenson

Número de Páginas: 137

The ideal companion to the text and the film adaptation

Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)

Autor: Robert Hewison

Número de Páginas: 389

Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the arts, architecture, landscape and other emblems of national significance. Illustrating his argument with a series of detailed case histories, Robert Hewison analyses how Britain’s cultural life has reached its present enfeebled condition and suggests a way forward. This book will be of interest to students of art and cultural studies.

Texturas Nº 8

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 148

Índice 01_Trampantojo Editorial 02_Encuadre Lo terrible y lo trágico en la ficción Jack London 03_Artificio Un sitio especial Tom Maschler Su majestad: el best seller Roberto Pliego Tres crisis en una: el periodista cultural Esteban Hernández El futuro del sector editorial en América Latina Richard Uribe & Robert Max Steenkist La macdonalización del libro Manuel Gil & Fco. Javier Jiménez La librería... ¡abierta! Xavier Cubeles El escenario digital del editor Chema García 04_Enfoque Bestiario Lector Juan Yanes 05_Visión Poesía visual 06_Perfil Las librerías independientes en Colombia Martín Gómez El problema de fondo o el fondo es el problema Andrés Boersner 07_Espejismo Libros y blogs

Texturas Nº 9

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 132

Índice 01_Retacada Editorial 02_Carambola Siempre que estoy a punto de publicar un libro Mark Twain 03_Resbalamiento Esta cultura en esta crisis Pedro A. Vives Bienvenida la crisis Guillermo Schavelzon Falsos dilemas Alejandro Katz Tres crisis en una: el periodista cultural (y 2) Esteban Hernández De cómo la digitalización ayudará al sector editorial a llegar al territorio del gran consumo Ana Rubín & Felipe Romero La edición académica: de texto a libro Federico Ibáñez Soler 04_Cuadraje El paseo de la Consolación Ínigo García Ureta 05_Recorte Un thriller en diez capítulos Robert McCrum Ser libro Adolfo García Ortega El verdadero avatar del libro electrónico Javier Candeira 06_Cabaña Libros y blogs

The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition

Autor: Asa Briggs

Número de Páginas: 1184

Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

The Making of Theatrical Reputations

Autor: Yael Zarhy-levo

Número de Páginas: 305

Today's successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators, who influence the whole trajectory of a playwright's or a theatre company's career. Critics and academic writers are primarily considered the makers of reputations, but funding organizations and various media agents as well as artistic directors, producers, and directors also pursue separate agendas in shaping the reputations of theatrical works. In The Making of Theatrical Reputations Yael Zarhy-Levo demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory. To reveal how these authorizing powers-that-be promote theatrical events, companies, and playwrights, Zarhy-Levo presents four detailed case studies that reflect various angles of the modern London theatre. In the case of the English Stage Company's production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, she centers on a specific event. She then focuses on the trajectory of a single company, the Theatre Workshop, particularly through its first decade at the Theatre Royal,...

Prizing Literature

Autor: Gillian Roberts

Número de Páginas: 281

When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship are particularly complicated when the honorees are immigrants, like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, or Rohinton Mistry. Then there is the case of Yann Martel, who is identified both as Canadian and as rootlessly cosmopolitan. How have these writers' identities been recalibrated in order to claim them as 'representative' Canadians? Prizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors. Gillian Roberts uses theories of hospitality to examine how prize-winning authors are variously received and honoured depending on their citizenship and the extent to which they represent 'Canadianness.' Prizing Literature sheds light on popular and media understandings of what it means to be part of a multicultural nation.

Censoring Translation

Autor: Michelle Woods

Número de Páginas: 197

A play is written, faces censorship and is banned in its native country. There is strong international interest; the play is translated into English, it is adapted, and it is not performed. Censoring Translation questions the role of textual translation practices in shaping the circulation and reception of foreign censored theatre. It examines three forms of censorship in relation to translation: ideological censorship; gender censorship; and market censorship. This examination of censorship is informed by extensive archival evidence from the previously unseen archives of Václav Havel's main theatre translator, Vera Blackwell, which includes drafts of playscripts, legal negotiations, reviews, interviews, notes and previously unseen correspondence over thirty years with Havel and central figures of the theatre world, such as Kenneth Tynan, Martin Esslin, and Tom Stoppard. Michelle Woods uses this previously unresearched archive to explore broader questions on censorship, asking why texts are translated at a given time, who translates them, how their identity may affect the translation, and how the constituents of success in a target culture may involve elements of censorship.

Cynicism in British Post-War Culture

Autor: K. Curran

Número de Páginas: 304

This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.

British Biography

Autor: Carl Rollyson

Número de Páginas: 321

Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the eighteenth century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man but also to reveal his flaws. Boswell reported long stretches of Johnson's conversation, noted his mannerisms, and in general gave an intimate picture such as no biography had ever before dared to attempt. After Boswell, there was a retreat from his bolder innovations, which amounted to self-censorship on the biographer's part. When Thomas Carlyle's biographer, James Anthony Froude, braved this trend against truth and allowed his subject's dark side to show, he was vilified in the press. The tensions between discretion and candor have endured in British biography since Froude, a point Carl Rollyson makes in the reviews of contemporary British biographers he includes in British Biography, which also contains Johnson's full-length biography of Richard Savage, excerpts from Boswell's Life of Johnson as well selections from and commentaries on Southey's biography of Nelson, Mrs. Gaskell's...

A Writer of Our Time

Autor: Joshua Sperling

Número de Páginas: 313

"This engaging intellectual biography traces Berger’s creative evolution, analyzes highlights from his vast output ... and situates them within his empathetic Marxism." –The New Yorker The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. “Far from dragging politics into art,” he wrote in 1953, “art has dragged me into politics.” He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017.Built around a series of watersheds, at once personal and historical, A Writer of Our Time traces Berger’s development from his roots as a postwar art student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s—when the revolutions were not only political but sexual and artistic—to Berger’s reinvention as a rural storyteller and the...

John Fowles

Autor: James Acheson

Número de Páginas: 266

This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

Chasing the Thrill

Autor: Daniel Barbarisi

Número de Páginas: 369

“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune. Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in...

Lives of the Novelists

Autor: Carl Rollyson

Número de Páginas: 161

Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should biographies be written in the style and form of novels? How to balance the life and the work? How much literary criticism can a biography absorb into its narrative? Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography-including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances there seems to be a symbiosis between biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action. That literary biography is a kind of strip mining, a pathography laying bare the subject's life to no good purpose is another canard this book demolishes. The pieces here also expose the genre's weak points: a proclivity for overstatement and excessive length, the failure of biographers to build upon their predecessors' work (Rollyson invents a term-biographology-in order to discuss the...

Killing For Company

Autor: Brian Masters

Número de Páginas: 361

The definitive story of the Dennis Nilsen case featured in BBC's The Nilsen Tapes, and the book behind ITV's Des, starring David Tennant ***WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTION and THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** __________________ Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, admitted to killing at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983. This ground-breaking criminal study of his killings was written with Nilsen's full cooperation, resulting in a fascinating - and horrifying - portrait of the man who worshipped death. In February 1983, residents of Muswell Hill had been plagued by blocked drains. When a plumber was called to investigate, he discovered a large blockage of biological material. To his horror, it appeared to be formed of human flesh and bones. The next day, local resident Dennis Nilsen was arrested. 'Are we talking about one body or two?' a detective asked. Nilsen replied 'Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978. I'll tell you everything.' Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, mostly young gay men at a time when society cared little for them, had been overlooked. Killing for Company is a unique...

Billy and the Minpins

Autor: Roald Dahl

Número de Páginas: 81

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. This beautiful edition of Billy and the Minpins, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . . The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl’s books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers.

Reading Biography

Autor: Carl Rollyson

Número de Páginas: 115

Most book reviewers know very little about the history or the art of biography. Indeed, if there is any art in biography, it is the rare reviewer that acknowledges it or knows how to discuss it. Usually the reviewer regards biography as an occasion to wax eloquent about what he or she thinks of the subject. Little space, if any, is devoted to the biography's structure or style, to the biographer's peculiar problems, or to how the biography relates to others about the same subject. Carl Rollyson, a professional biographer and weekly columnist (On Biography) for The New York Sun, explores the ramifications of authorized and unauthorized biographies, investigates the relationship between biography and history, biography and fiction, biography and autobiography, as well commenting on certain perennial biographical subjects such as Napoleon, on sub genres such as children's biography, and on the most recent developments in life writing. Rollyson's aim is to reach not merely scholars but that vast general audience addicted to reading biography, enhancing their pleasure by providing insight (or you might say, the inside word) on how biographies are put together.

Stet (vale lo tachado)

Autor: Diana Athill

Número de Páginas: 256

Es una obra lúcida, divertida y humana que atrapa desde las primeras líneas, plagada de anécdotas, sinsabores y sorpresas, siempre desde el punto de vista de una "editora de mesa" - como Dianan Athill se definía -, que ofrece al lector las claves del día a día del trabajo editorial. En estas memorias, cuenta como fueron sus primeros años de aprendizaje en el oficio y los problemas que tuvo que enfrentar - entre ellos la autocrática actitud de André Deutsch, su jefe y compañero-, pese a los cuales siempre amó su trabajo, al que se dedicó con inteligencia y cariño.

La vida sin armadura

Autor: Alan Sillitoe

Número de Páginas: 339

Descatalogada desde hace años, y recientemente rescatada en una nueva edición, estamos ante una de las autobiografías más impactantes escritas por un novelista en el siglo XX. Alan Sillitoe, considerado un autor clave de la generación más brillante de la literatura inglesa de posguerra, narra aquí su formación como escritor: sus años de infancia y de penurias en una casa de protección oficial en la ciudad industrial de Nottingham, la evacuación durante la guerra y sus años en el ejército, en Malasia, la tuberculosis y su renacimiento como polémico miembro del movimiento de los Jóvenes Airados; la publicación de sus primeros libros y su éxito como autor generacional. Un libro que evoca, en toda su crudeza, el alma de una época, y constituye un relato vívido de la escena cultural y social de la Inglaterra, entre sórdida y triunfalista, que alumbró a Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Kingsley Amis o Philip Larkin. Una de las autobiografías más sinceras e impactantes escritas por un novelista en el siglo XX. Un retrato del artista obrero en la durísima Inglaterra industrial.

Bolaño frente a Herralde

Autor: Alfredo Lèal Rodríguez

Número de Páginas: 246

Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American literary canon through the texts of Jorge Herralde. After showing how the work of the 1998 Premio Herralde winner has been commodified, Lèal offers a critical reading of the writer figure, as represented in three key moments of Bolaño’s short story production.

Texturas Nº 13

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 148

Índice 01_Bolo Tribulaciones de un libro Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels 02_Cuadratín Fragmentos y vínculos Francisco Rico Bibliotecas propias y ajenas Adolfo Castañón ¿Es posible crear una Biblioteca Nacional Digital? Robert Darnton 03_Contraforma Ser editor Michael Kandel El rol de las agencias de comunicación editorial en el mundo postdigital María José de Acuña A propósito de la ley del precio ‘único’ del libro en México Noé Villaseñor Dichas y desdichas. Una historia de supervivencia en la comercialización del libro importado en México Ramón Cifuentes Pérez El entorno digital y las publicaciones jurídicas Enrique Pascual Una humilde propuesta para los autores que quieren librarse de sus editores Paul Carr 04_Arroba Íñigo García Ureta 05_Daga Aforismos diabólicos del libro y la edición Fco. Javier Jiménez Una metáfora de nuestro tiempo Juan Ángel Juristo Visibilidad: el gran reto del libro Cecilia Tan Los editores no leen ‘e-books’ Richard H. Adin 06_Calderón Libros y blogs

Texturas Nº 12

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 116

Índice 01_Serifa Los libros Joseph Conrad 02_Ligadura Pequeña apología del libro Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio El fin de la Edad del Libro Margarita Valencia El futuro de las bibliotecas Robert Darnton Máquinas de leer Julieta Lionetti La edad de la inocencia (agosto) Marco Cassini El editor independiente: ¿solo ante el peligro? De la autopromoción a la creación de comunidades Francisco Javier Jiménez 03_Póliza Poética de lo invisible Julia Otxoa 04_Glifo Libro electrónico y derechos de autor Mike Shatzkin Yo, traductor David Bellos El despertador Íñigo García Ureta Lo que los editores pueden aprender de Allen Lane: valentía James Bridle La responsabilidad de los escritores Charles Dudley Warner 05_Oreja Libros y blogs

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967

Autor: Peter Parker

Número de Páginas: 286

'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, Spectator The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967 In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Peter Parker's fascinating new compendium explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they were well-known figures such as Francis Bacon, Joe Orton and Kenneth Williams, or living lives of quiet – or occasionally rowdy – anonymity in pubs, clubs, more public places of assignation, or at home. It is rich with letters, diaries, psychological textbooks, novels, films, plays and police records, covering a wide range of viewpoints, from those who deplored homosexuality to those who campaigned for its decriminalization. This second volume, from 1960 to 1967, shows how key elements in British society gradually changed their views on homosexuality, resulting in the landmark 1967 act by which it was no longer considered a ...

Texturas Nº 10

Autor: Manuel Ortuño , José María Barandiarán , Manuel Gil

Número de Páginas: 148

Índice 01_Alcahuete Editorial 02_Pipirijaina Leer o no leer Oscar Wilde 03_Tornavoz El Kindle: ¿una mejora del libro convencional? Nicholson Baker La transición digital: ¿ha muerto el eReader antes de nacer? Manuel Gil & Francisco Javier Jiménez El Book Search de Google: un desastre para especialistas e investigadores Geoffrey Nunberg Cosas que no debería decir sobre los editores y libreros (independientes) Esteban Hernández Las fronteras del libro electrónico. Reflexiones desde la edición académica Magda Polo La edición independiente como alternativa para fortalecer la diversidad de la oferta editorial OBIEI 04_Faldeta Montajes gráficos Emilio Gil 05_Bambalinón La muerte del editor (Echenoz y Lindon) Jean-Louis Cornille 06_Varal Escribir a dieta Juan Villoro Estómagos de hierro Margarita Valencia 07_Escotillón Libros y blogs

Sin justificar

Autor: Tomás Granados Salinas

Número de Páginas: 194

Este texto de contraportada está sin justificar: las líneas fluyen desde la izquierda, cada una tan larga como le exigen las letras y los espacios que la conforman. Las que aguardan al lector dentro de este volumen también están sin justificar: son apuntes un tanto arbitrarios, desenfadados pero con su razonable dosis de información, que expresan un modo de poner en práctica el oficio de editor. Hay aquí unas cuantas piezas sobre personas, lecturas, debates y prácticas, como unas indeseadas pero necesarias notas necrológicas. «Sin justificar» reúne, pues, unas anotaciones al margen de alguien que lee su profesión y su actualidad como si fueran un original que se prepara para la imprenta.