Is this old news?

[Bill Millard]

Forgive what may be an uninformed query, but I just noticed, while 
looking through the Amazon.com site -- which now lists a price and 
cover art for M&D, so we can probably presume that its 
imminent publication is *not* an April 1 hoax (how's that for 
paranoia?) -- that TRP is listed as editor for a collection that 
includes his Sloth piece from the Times, _Deadly Sins_ (Quill, 1996). 
Six other well-known writers contributed one sin each: Mary Gordon, 
John Updike, William Trevor, et al. 

I was unsubscribed back in Feb. '96 when this book came out, but it 
seems like semi-major news; I don't recall TRP acting as an editor on 
any other occasion.  Anybody have comments on this?  Could the 
attribution of editorship be in error?

The Amazon URL for this is

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query/2864-8530777-330164

Incidentally, I have it from a reliable source (one handshake from 
TRP's Holt editor) that there will be absolutely no advance copies of 
M&D, even to reviewers.  Damn.


--Bill 

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