Famous writers talk about their editor

Larissa MacFarquhar interviews writers ranging from Joseph Heller to Toni Morrison about the editor they all worked with, the legendary Robert Gottlieb, and Gottlieb comments on what they say, at times uncomfortably: "Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it’s pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an extreme example, is not a wholesome thing. The editor’s relationship to a book should be an invisible one."

December 14, 2014

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