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The Art of Editing
April 18, 2011 in the literary conversation
Today’s long read comes from an issue of The Paris Review from 1994, per a colleague’s recommendation. It’s an interview with Robert Gottlieb, editor-at-large at Knopf, and his peers about the art of editing. So many great anecdotes and epigrammatic advice about being a good reader. I underlined many bits of it to share here, and then I callously tossed the thing into a street-side waste bin. Fail. You’ll have to find your own favorite bits.
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I absolutely loved loved loved this piece. Not only for its insights into the craft of editing but for the myriad small ways it informed my understanding of the way two people working together can relate to one another.