Diana Athill, Author . Norton $24.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-393-06770-5
When it comes to facing old age, writes Athill, “there are no lessons to be learnt, no discoveries to be made, no solutions to offer.” As the acclaimed British memoirist (who wrote about her experiences as a book editor in Stet
) pushes...
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Diana Athill, Author Steerforth Press $18 (130p) ISBN 978-1-883642-21-1
Occasionally compelling, this brief book recounts a lost episode from the ``radical chic'' era, British division. In 1969, Athill ( Instead of a Letter ), a well-bred, 50-ish London editor, met Hakim Jamal, an African American risen from drugs and...
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Diana Athill, Author Grove/Atlantic $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1683-3
For nearly 50 years, Athill edited some of the best minds of the postwar generation, including Molly Keane, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Brian Moore, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler, Philip Roth, Gitta Sereny and John Updike. A founding...
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Diana Athill. Norton, $24.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-393-25371-9
Almost 10 years after the publication of Athill’s memoir Somewhere Towards the End, she bestows upon readers another gift of her elegant glimpses back at many of her life’s most memorable moments. In beguiling, evocative prose, she details her...
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Diana Athill. Norton, $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-393-06295-3
Only one side of the 30-year correspondence between longtime British author Athill, an editorial director at Andre Deutsch, and the American poet Edward Field is conveyed here, while the absence of Field’s replies are not adequately explained. The...
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