superior GR

[Mark Kohut]

Folks,
   
  My guess is that the initial page count was just an estimate from TRP's agent.  
  I cannot imagine at this stage of his career that Thomas Pynchon has an editor
  at Penguin who could make editorial suggestions that he might listen to. Editing
  THIS BOOK by a MacArthur grant winner? Look at how long it has taken us to begin to
  "get' it and it is nothing if not 'thought-thru' at every word. (maybe too thought-thru but, d'uh
  maybe not)
  I imagine his agent/wife and, or, maybe anyone else he trusts might have 'worked'
  with him on the editing' along the way.  
  Rumors are the agent/wife of his old Cornell friend Kirkpatrick Sale, the late Faith Sale,
  was the first reader/editor of GR......and Corlies "Cork' Smith was its in-house "editor".
  After that, I'd bet anything he was self-edited.
  Updike, Roth, many others do not get "edited" in-house anymore.
   
  MK

Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
  Laura:

> It appeared from the Penguin site that ATD's page count was 
> hastily expanded from the 900's to 
> 1000+ shortly before its publication -- probably not something most 
> 1000+ editors would push for.

Do we have reason to believe that was caused by late additions to the ms,
rather than a design or layout change?

For what it's worth, I concluded during the early comments here on ATD last
winter that probably a majority of us would agree it could use some
triming... but that if we were to follow that up, there'd be a hellacious
brawl over which parts to trim :-)



 
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