The Accidental Life

The Accidental Life
Author: Terry McDonell
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101970510

An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are 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 expert’s practical advice on how to recruit—and keep—high-profile talent; what makes 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, and what it takes to write well. Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today’s digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: “Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he's known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it's changed and where it's going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.”

An Accidental Life

An Accidental Life
Author: Pamela Binnings Ewen
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0805464328

A New Orleans senior district attorney and his lawyer wife are caught up in a faith-testing courtroom battle involving the rights of infants born alive during abortions.

The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson

The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson
Author: Paige Toon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471118797

From Sunday Times bestselling author Paige Toon comes the first novel in a witty new series, perfect for fans of Geek Girl and Girl Online! Meet Jessie, small-town girl turned wild child… Jessie has never known her real dad, and when her mum dies she thinks any hope of finding him is gone. As she goes off the rails and her life devolves into a wild mess, her stepdad announces that her father is Johnny Jefferson—legendary rock star and former hell-raiser. Still dealing with her loss, and now the daughter of a superstar, Jessie is sucked into the LA lifestyle—paparazzi, parties, and hot guitar-wielding boys included. But is Johnny up to the job of fatherhood? And, more importantly, is Jessie ready for life in the spotlight? “Fun and flirty, Jessie Jefferson is a top-notch series YA fans should grab ASAP.” —Maximum Pop!

The Accidental Life Swap

The Accidental Life Swap
Author: Jennifer Joyce
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008348650

‘I haven’t laughed so much at a book for a long time.’ Whispering Stories Book Blog, 5 stars Sometimes one moment can change your life forever...

An Accidental Life

An Accidental Life
Author: Harold A. Drayton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781910553459

An Accidental Life is a portrait of a man who played a significant role in the history of education and health in the Caribbean. Harold Drayton's passionate and meticulous memoir offers, first, a precious account of colonial British Guiana. He maps the impacton him of his home, into which his birth was an accident, the influence of his working-class autodidact stepfather, of his schools, and of war and politics in the 1940s.

Accidental Genius

Accidental Genius
Author: Mark Levy
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605096512

A new and thoroughly revised edition of marketing and positioning genius Mark Levy, which helps readers unleash their inner creativity, problem solving skills, while also generating content. This is The Artist's Way for business people and social media people. Accidental Genius uses a similar methodology of freewriting to create business plan, find solutions, and generate new content. Over 10,000 of the original edition sold.

No Lifeguard on Duty

No Lifeguard on Duty
Author: Janice Dickinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061750840

No Lifeguard on Duty is the ultimate memoir of sex, drugs, rock & roll, and redemption from modeling icon Janice Dickinson. From her supermodel glory days with Gia Carangi and Christie Brinkley to nights with Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone; from a dizzying drug and alcohol habit to three failed marriages; from cavorting around the globe to struggling to make it in Los Angeles as a working mom on America’s Next Top Model and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, Janice tells all.

The Accidental Teacher

The Accidental Teacher
Author: Annie Lubliner Lehmann
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0472050745

A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism

California Bloodstock

California Bloodstock
Author: Terry McDonell
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 052543304X

The brilliant debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Accidental Life “The twisted truth about where California came from . . . A rare, original piece of work.” —Hunter S. Thompson California Bloodstock is a novel of exploding imagination, an epic comic saga of nineteenth-century California. A fifteen-year-old heroine seeks revenge and comes of age in the tradition of True Grit. Like a female Huckleberry Finn, her heart reflects the ironies of history—Manifest Destiny, indeed. Gold is discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and a rag-tag republic is born out of a free-for-all landscape of blustering and doomed historical players—from John C. Freemont and Brigham Young to the Donner Party. The mythic “Animal People” gobble peyote, while boom-town San Francisco rollicks with the unhinged entrepreneurs selling fairy tale schemes to buckskin drifters and New York publishing scions. Even the legendary swordsman Zoro is here and at large, robbing stagecoaches in the idyllic grasslands that will all too soon become Silicon Valley. Read it and weep—with laughter as the so-called Golden State invents its future.