{"id":61950,"date":"2024-07-31T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=61950"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:24:44","slug":"tipped-by-a-friend-and-glad-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/07\/tipped-by-a-friend-and-glad-to-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Tipped by a Friend and Glad to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Thought this would give you a smile,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Look whose book shows up in the first pic of this article.&#8221; It appears from the photo that my biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talent-Trouble-Hollywoods-Acclaimed-Director-ebook\/dp\/B00S35AGNA\/ref=monarch_sidesheet_image\">A Talent for Trouble<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0turned up in the secondhand book sale of the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Gottlieb\">Robert Gottlieb<\/a>&#8216;s private library. Putnam published the biography in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jan-Herman-Hollywoods-Acclaimed-1996-01-18\/dp\/B002016TA2\/ref=monarch_sidesheet_image#customerReviews\">hardcover<\/a>, which is the edition Gottlieb owned. (Da Capo Press published it in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talent-Trouble-Hollywoods-Acclaimed-Director\/dp\/030680798X\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;asin=030680798X&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1\">paperback<\/a>). The ebook of <em>A Talent for Trouble<\/em> (for which I earn royalties) is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talent-Trouble-Hollywoods-Acclaimed-Director-ebook\/dp\/B00S35AGNA\/ref=monarch_sidesheet_image\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/23\/style\/robert-gottlieb-book-sale.html?searchResultPosition=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"388\" data-attachment-id=\"61981\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/screenshot-52\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nytimes.com20240723stylerobert-gottlieb-book-sale-arrowenh750.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"750,388\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nytimes.com20240723stylerobert-gottlieb-book-sale-arrowenh750.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nytimes.com20240723stylerobert-gottlieb-book-sale-arrowenh750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61981\" title=\"CLICK TO READ THE STORY.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nytimes.com20240723stylerobert-gottlieb-book-sale-arrowenh750.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nytimes.com20240723stylerobert-gottlieb-book-sale-arrowenh750-300x155.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/23\/style\/robert-gottlieb-book-sale.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Click for the story about the book sale.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thought this would give you a smile,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Look whose book shows up in the first pic of this article.&#8221; It appears from the photo that my biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler,\u00a0&#8220;A Talent for Trouble,&#8221;\u00a0turned up in the secondhand book sale of the late Robert Gottlieb&#8217;s private library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-movies","11":"category-news","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/william-wyler175-e1373895642799.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-g7c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61990,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950\/revisions\/61990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}