Re: just the two of us on the Fourth
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 04 Jul 1998 12:38:26 -0600 (MDT)
Max PErkins and William Shawn have been credited by Hemingway and Salinger
as having given feedback worth more than a damn...
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote:
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> I can't think of any literary anecdote where any writer worth a damn
> accepted the feedback of his readers or editors - except perhaps
> where there was some problem about getting past censors or making
> it more marketable in Poughkeepsie. The only texts these chaps
> regard as sacred are the ones they wrote.
>