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On the towering stilettos of The Devil Wears Prada comes a biting, mordantly funny debut novel about the extremely unladylike business of publishing a very ladylike magazine.Once there was a little girl from Fargo, North Dakota, named Maggie Goldfarb who grew up, moved to Manhattan, and morphed into Magnolia Gold, the highly paid editor in chief of Lady magazine. With a corner office, a designer wardrobe, and dozens of loyal employees, Magnolia has...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Contains three loosely connected essays in which the author, a secular Jew, ponders her feelings about the city of Berlin, a place she expected to hate, her failure to write a planned book about Scottish philosopher David Hume, and the death of fellow writer Leonard Michaels with whom she shared a long and difficult friendship.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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"The first biography of Helen Gurley Brown, author of the 1962 international bestseller Sex and the Single Girl and 32-year editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. Scanlon had unprecedented access to Brown's papers, and she presents Brown in the context of the feminist movement, highlighting her role as an advocate of professional accomplishment and sexual freedom for women"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1997
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The author, who died two days after the French publication of his book, tells of his life and feelings after suffering a brain stem stroke that left him unable to move his body or communicate in any way except through the blinking of his left eye.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Desserts: Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography comes a scrupulously researched investigative biography that tells the inside story of Anna Wintour's incredible rise to power
From her exclusive perch front row center, glamorous Vogue magazine editor in chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful and influential style-maker in the world. Behind her trademark sunglasses and under the fringe of her...
11) Meternity
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Language
English
Description
At thirty-one, Liz Buckley's plateaued at Paddy Cakes, a glossy baby magazine that flogs thousand-dollar strollers to entitled, hypercompetitive spawn-havers. Liz has spent years working a gazillion hours a week picking up the slack for coworkers with kids, and she's tired of it. So one day when her stress-related nausea is mistaken for morning sickness by her bosses--boom! Liz is promoted to the mommy track. She decides to run with it and plans to...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved...
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even imperative, to enjoy sex outside of marriage; that equal rights for women should extend to the bedroom; that...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The irreverent diaries of the author's celebrated years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair also serves as a vibrant portrait of the 1980s in New York and Hollywood, describing her summons from London in the hopes of saving Condé Nast's troubled periodical and her experiences within the cutthroat world of glamour magazines.
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