"It depends what you mean by influence… " In another sense, his furious encounters with Jones show real editorial life (almost anywhere) in the raw.
In other words, dear Sandra, let's drop it, and in such a way that Guadagni will forgive me and I apologise, to you and Sandro, for the way I complicate your editorial life.
There, obviously, is a marriage headed for the rocks, and here we sit holding three crucial newsbreaks in our hand, playing with human destiny as though it were a mechanical toy, and bent with the almost unbearable burdens of the editorial life.
Although she worked closely with some of the biggest literary names of the era, she says the most enjoyable part of her editorial life would always be taking on a book "by someone who knew an awful lot about a subject but couldn't write.
In fact, discussions about decisions on papers are a daily fact of editorial life!
As stated in one statistical editorial: "Life would be that simple were it not for human beings" [ 19].
