London Review of Books : an incomplete history
2019
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Every two weeks for the past forty years, the London Review of Books has published between ten and twenty book reviews and essays interspersed with letters, poems and occasional short stories, growing from 'a small paper' - as the founding editor Karl Miller put it - into Europe's leading literary magazine. But behind this uncharacteristically celebratory tale are countless smaller, sharper stories. After all, it takes a lot of gossip, ingenuity, argument, obsessive attention to detail, persistence, parties, panic, hustle and continuous correspondence - with towering contributors and heroic subscribers alike - to make a reasonably interesting fortnightly paper. This book invites readers behind the scenes, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper's archives, personal collections and forgotten filing cabinets.
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Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2019.
Collation:
xii, 243 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm
ISBN:
9780571358045 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
028.10941824.91408824.91408 LON
Language:
English
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BRN:
1289450
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