HUMAN RELATIONS AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES

Book ID/图书代码： 03635018C00014

English Summary/英文概要： Mary-Kay Wilmers has been a giant of the English literary world for decades. She was integral in the founding of LRB in 1979 during the year-long lock-out at The Times and has served as its editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has pulled no punches and faced the inevitable controversies head on, leading the Observer to wonder whether LRB is ’the best magazine in the world’. Which may explain why, while most print media has been struggling, LRB has grown to become the most circulated magazine of its kind in Europe.

This collection of Mary-Kay Wilmers’ essays, book reviews, short articles and obituaries handles subjects from mistresses to marketing, and seduction to psychoanalysts, all with Wilmers’ trademark insightful wit. Throughout she uses her deep and varied knowledge to provide both context and cutting criticism. This creates a portrait of a particular slice of English culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 玛丽•凯•威尔默斯几十年来一直是英国文坛的巨人。1979年，在《纽约时报》长达一年的停刊期间，她参与了LRB的创立，并自1992年起担任主编。在她的领导下，该杂志毫不留情地直面不可避免的争议，《观察家》不禁要问，LRB是否是“世界上最好的杂志”。这也许可以解释为什么在大多数印刷媒体苦苦挣扎的同时，LRB已经成为欧洲发行量最大的杂志。

玛丽-凯•威尔默斯的散文、书评、短文和讣告集涉及从情妇到市场营销、从诱惑到心理分析师等各种主题，所有这些都带有威尔默斯标志性的深刻智慧。在整个过程中，她运用自己丰富而深刻的知识来提供语境和尖锐的批评。这幅画描绘了20世纪末和21世纪初英国文化的一个特定部分。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：对玛丽-凯•威尔默斯的赞扬：

“在过去150年里，她为英国文章所做的贡献比任何人都多……如果这是法国，他们每天早晨都会把荣誉军团的人送到她家门口。”(安德鲁•欧哈根)

我从来没有遇到过像他这样表现得如此自信或如此具有世界性的人。(艾伦•班尼特)

Praise for Mary-Kay Wilmers:

’She [has] done more for the British essay than anyone in the last 150 years ... if this were France they’d be posting the Legion D’Honneur through her door every morning.’ (Andrew O’Hagan)

I had never come across anyone who behaved so confidently or in such a cosmopolitan fashion. (Alan Bennett)

About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽•凯•威尔默斯是英国文学巨匠，也是LRB的创始撰稿人和编辑，自1992年以来一直担任该杂志的主编。在她的领导下，该杂志已发展成为欧洲最大的同类杂志，发行量超过7万份。

玛丽•凯•威尔默斯曾在美国、葡萄牙、瑞士和比利时四处漂泊，后来搬到英国牛津大学读法语和俄语。起初，玛丽•凯•威尔默斯打算从事同声传译工作，后来却在费伯律师事务所找到了一份秘书工作，并为《新政治家》撰稿。她后来在《听众》担任副主编，后来在创办LRB之前曾在《泰晤士报文学增刊》工作过一段时间。这本书是为纪念她八十岁生日而出版的。

A giant of English letters, Mary-Kay Wilmers was a founding contributor and editor of LRB, and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has grown to be the largest of its kind in Europe with a circulation of more than 70,000.

After an itinerant youth spent between America, Portugal, Switzerland and Belgium, Mary-Kay Wilmers moved to the UK to read French and Russian at Oxford. Initially planning on a career as a simultaneous translator, Mary Kay-Wilmers instead found work as a secretary at Faber & Faber and as a contributor to the New Statesman. She went on to serve as deputy editor at the Listener and later worked for a time at the Times Literary Supplement before founding LRB.

This book is being published to mark her 80th birthday.

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