An Editor Abroad

Still no news from the Fair, so I will have to tell you about Los Angeles: my book fair of one at the Chateau Marmont. My first meeting--breakfast--was with PR... Weiterlesen →

I had hoped to surprise you today with news from the Fair, but my sister, my spy--the New York representative of Aitken, Alexander--is laid up in the... Weiterlesen →

As a fiction editor you are often asked, by agents or foreign publishers, what kind of novel you like. At first the question stymied me. Then I realized you can... Weiterlesen →

It's because of that Nicholson Baker novel, The Anthologist -possibly the most entertaining novel ever written about writer's block and editorial... Weiterlesen →

A confession, for starters: I'm not at the Frankfurt Book Fair. I write this dispatch from a sleeper train in the Nevada desert, somewhere between Winnemucca... Weiterlesen →