n+1 editor Nikil Saval has sold a history of the office to Doubleday in a “significant deal,” or low- to mid-six figures, in Publisher’s Marketplace speak.
Acquiring editor Gerry Howard edited James Wolcott’s recent memoir and was an early champion of David Foster Wallace.
The agent, Edward Orloff Read More
Gay Talese weighs in on Salinger in this week’s paper, but The Observer‘s Molly Fischer and Michael H. Miller also spoke to other writers and editors about their memories of the author.
GERALD HOWARD (Random House):
Gerald Howard, an editor, recalls a “piece of publishing lore” passed down by J. Randall Williams III—Howard’s Read More
Frances Kiernan, biographer of Brooke Astor and Mary McCarthy, is writing her next book about Elizabeth Hardwick, Lady Caroline Blackwood, and their respective marriages to the poet Robert Lowell.
Gerry Howard, who worked with Ms. Kiernan on her McCarthy biography when he was at Norton, will edit the book, which is Read More
Emotionally misshapen losers are taking over contemporary literature!
Just kidding. Those guys have been running the show for centuries. But it does seem like every other literary novel that comes out these days has at its center some variation on the classic antihero—a character whose flaws are worn plainly if not Read More
One thing we’re going to try to do here this week at Media Mob is talk to some of the people who got the chance to edit David Foster Wallace over the course of his career.
Who knows how many of them we’ll actually track down—there are lots, because DFW wrote pieces for so Read More
I come to praise the Bronx, but first I want to bury the Yankees. God, I’m so glad they lost. They deserved to lose: It’s pure karma, payback for the way they stole the American League playoff series last year with the help of that smug little fat kid who turned an out into a Read More
