I've completed the writing and editing of a new book, and Bob Gottlieb is now working very hard on its production details to make sure it looks good.
Philip Roth went through the editing of an entire book with Veronica Geng before they finally met and became fast friends — or, as Roth recalls, before "we began to make each other laugh".
I've repeated my story about him as a pub anecdote many times over since our run-in, but it took the painstakingly repetitive process of editing a book and recording of an audiobook to get it through my thick skull that none of it was funny.
In her most recent column, she told of editing a book about Rangers' financial collapse in 2012 that "led to a nearly four-year long sustained campaign of abuse" by Rangers' fans.
"Shazam!" reverses that process and shifts from the rapid-fire editing of a typical comic book movie to spend more time developing characters.
Having spent a couple of years editing a book and co-authoring another, I lost the ability to guide my body to restful sleep.
I slunk back to The New Yorker, where it was discovered that I had developed judgment, and after another twenty years of copy editing I got a book out of my day job.
Barbara Rosen, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, has edited Shakespeare, a book of reports of Elizabethan witch trials, and Children's Literature.
Because of an editing error, a Books of The Times review last week, about "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme, misstated the year of Mrs. Child's death.
Correction: April 12, 2006, Wednesday Because of an editing error, a Books of The Times review last week, about "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme, misstated the year of Mrs. Child's death.
