Feb 14 2025 64 mins 1
My conversation with The New Yorker fiction editor of 20+ years, Deborah Treisman.
Topics included: the "egoless" midwifery of editing; common traits among the famous writers she's known (obsessiveness and dedication are hallmarks); and anecdotes of the late David Foster Wallace.
Order Mark's novel Bunyan and Henry.
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