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Gordon Lish, the Art of Editing No. 2 (2015)
- dogruck 9y agoRelevant to this era of Harvey Weinstein: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/seduce-the-whole-world-gordon-lishs-workshop https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/seduce-the-whole... Briefly, Gordon Lish had a proud reputation of seducing and emotionally abusing his students. (That said, I happen to love Ray Carver's writing.)
- sharkjacobs 9y agoarticle is cut off by a pay wall before the interview catches up, chronologically, to when he began editing