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A Bite of the Apple

By: Lennie Goodings
Narrated by: Lennie Goodings
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The moment I got my job at Virago, in 1978, I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only 25 and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politics, imagination, feminism and business was the air we breathed....

A Bite of the Apple is part-memoir, part history of Virago and part thoughts on more than 40 years of feminist publishing. This is the story of how the authors and staff who, driven by passion, conviction and excitement, have made Virago Press one of the most important and influential English-language publishers in the world. Lennie Goodings has been with the iconic press founded by Carmen Callil almost since the start. First a publicist and then for more than 20 years a publisher and editor, she has worked with extraordinary authors: Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Naomi Wolf and Maya Angelou among many others.

Virago has been a life-changer for Lennie Goodings - but certainly not only for her. Following the chronology of the press and the enormous breadth of the Virago titles published over these years, she sets her story in the context of feminism and segues into thoughts on editing, post-feminism, reading, breaking boundaries and the Virago Modern Classics. Virago lives within the tension between idealism and pragmatism, between sisterhood and celebrity, between watching feminism wax and wane at the same time as knowing so many of the battles are still to be won. This audiobook is about how it felt to be there.

A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing and of reading.

©2020 Lennie Goodings (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK
Authors Women Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing Funny

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