Maybe It’s a Squid or a Pebble or a Policeman
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Via Gawker, an excellent David Mitchell and Robert Webb skit about the relationship between a writer and his editor. Or, more likely these days, a writer and his book packager.
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Perfect! Either write that or don’t…that’s about how helpful a lot of so-called editors are!
Comment by LK February 4, 2008 @ 11:43 pmDid you see the Raymond Carver’s letters to his editor in the New Yorker a while back, along with Lish’s edit of What We Talk About… I thought that was totally fascinating.
Comment by Leah February 21, 2008 @ 6:06 pmleah, totally. and it’s become very controversial too in carver’s case because they now want to publish the original un-edited versions of his stories. weird, right?
Comment by snackywombat February 21, 2008 @ 10:31 pm