Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do (68 page)

“An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Editing and Publishing” by Jean-Louis Brindamour and Joseph M. Lubow is copyright © 1992 by Jean-Louis Brindamour.

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Quoted by William Jovanovich in
Now, Barrabas
(New York: Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 79–80.

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A reference to a popular 1940s radio quiz show, upon which
The $64,000 Question
television show of the 1950s was based.—E
D
.

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A. Scott Berg,
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978), p. 6.

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Dorothy Commins,
What Is an Editor? Saxe Commins at Work
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978) pp. 90–91.

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I have no
favorite
mystery author; how can you choose only one from a universe that includes such disparate wonders as Tony Hillerman, Ross Thomas, Sue Grafton, and Ngaio Marsh, to name just a few of the many?

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Thomas L. Bonn,
Heavy Traffic and High Culture: New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution
(New York: Meridian, 1990).