¶ Notes from a Book Editor

A roundup of links that have interested me lately …

• Salon interview with Robert Gottlieb, editor of Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and others. Some great insights into the editing process. See also his Paris Review interview from 1994.
• The Guardian reports that Oscar Wilde’s editor J.M. Stoddart bowdlerized The Picture of Dorian Grey. Now an uncensored version has finally been published.
• Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, has a short story, ‘Deniers’ in the latest New Yorker.
• The Review Review has some useful advice for writers submitting to literary magazines.