@article{762524,
      recid = {762524},
      author = {McDonell, Terry,},
      title = {The accidental life : an editor's notes on writing and  writers /},
      pages = {xii, 369 pages :},
      abstract = {"Terry McDonell has top-edited some of the most  influential publications in American journalism. His new  book pulls back the curtain on his four-decade career as an  editor, journalist, and media entrepreneur, with stops at  more than a dozen magazines: from the launch of Outside  through tenures at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports  Illustrated, and, most recently, cofounding the literary  website LitHub. McDonell lays out the realities between  editors and writers with deadlines ticking, or with drinks  on the bar. His stories about the journalists, writers, and  media personalities he has known can be both heartbreaking  and bitingly funny--playing "acid golf " with Hunter S.  Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and  Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz  Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. Here, too,  is an insider's practical advice on how to recruit--and  keep--high-profile talent; how to craft a compelling lede;  how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars;  and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good  editor really works. Taking us from the raucous days of New  Journalism to today's digital landscape, McDonell argues  that the demand for storytelling from trustworthy news  sources keeps getting stronger. A celebration of the  pressures, obsessions, and satisfactions of a writing and  editing life."--Book jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/762524},
}