'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 twenty-five 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
over forty 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 over twenty
years, 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 book is
about how it felt to be there. A Bite of the Apple is a celebration
of writing, of publishing, and of reading.
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