Betsy Lerner
Autore di The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
Sull'Autore
Betsy Lerner is the author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers and Food and Loathing: A Lament.
Opere di Betsy Lerner
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pelham, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Columbia University (MFA|Poetry)
- Attività lavorative
- Editor ( at Houghton Mifflin ∙ Ballantine ∙ Simon & Schuster )
Executive editor (at Doubleday)
Agent ( The Gernert Company)
partner (Dunow Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency) - Organizzazioni
- The Gernert Company
Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency - Premi e riconoscimenti
- an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was one of PEN’s Emerging Writers in 1987. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors Under 35.
Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Award - Breve biografia
- Betsy Lerner worked as an editor for 16 years at major trade publishers including Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin and Executive Editor at Doubleday. She mostly works with non-fiction writers in the areas of science, psychology, history, cultural studies, biography, current events, memoir and the hard to categorize. Lerner was the recipient of the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of Food & Loathing and The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers. Her blog on publishing can be found on www.betsylerner.com. --http://dclagency.com/agents.html
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A lot of slow build up followed by not a heck of a lot of resolution. The first few chapters were almost intolerably boring and I only kept going out of curiosity. It really wasn't worth my time.
Not bad. The thing I don't like about books like this is this: they tell us what it's like from start to finish, from inception of a book to it appearing on the market, when the vast majority of us will never even get a publisher to look at it, let alone decide to take it. It's sort of like telling what Heaven will be like, when we know our chances of being one of the "elect" are slim.
I picked up this book because I loved to play bridge and I thought it would be interesting to see bridge from the point of view of someone who was trying to learn to play. However, that's not what it turned out to be. Yes, it did sections when the author talked about the difficulty of learning to play, but it mostly centered around the relationships of the "Bridge Ladies", how they came together over the years, and how the game was their release, a time when they could ignore the world and just play a game.
It wasn't anything special and I doubt I would have picked it up if I'd known what it was about at the start.… (altro)
It wasn't anything special and I doubt I would have picked it up if I'd known what it was about at the start.… (altro)
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Simon & Schuster (1)
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- #17,883
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 56
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 1
I really enjoyed this book overall, though there is some profanity, including God's name used in vain. This is just unprofessional. Sex was also mentioned a ridiculous number of times, considering the book is about writing. Lerner claims "analogies between sex and writing are unavoidable." Are they really, though? I think not.
The author also states that writing is about saving your soul. I found this to be a bit dramatic, not to mention untrue. (Because only God can save one's soul.)
But it was really fun to see publishing through the lens of an editor-turned-agent, and reading this made me so happy to be a part of the book world!
It was also a fun surprise to learn that Lerner worked with [a:Lucy Grealy|57229|Lucy Grealy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1383238381p2/57229.jpg] on her memoir [b:Autobiography of a Face|534255|Autobiography of a Face|Lucy Grealy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386921470l/534255._SY75_.jpg|95778], a book I just finished earlier this month!… (altro)