Dan Franklin: 'I am a tart. I am deeply shallow'

[Ian Livingston]

And so how ezackly did he read Gravity's Rainbow in the 60s?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Franklin: 'I am a tart. I am deeply shallow'
>
> He is the publishing colossus behind Britain's superstar authors. How
> does Dan Franklin stay ahead? He talks to Susanna Rustin about McEwan,
> Amis – and the death of the boozy lunch
>
> Susanna Rustin
> guardian.co.uk, Sunday 14 March 2010 22.00 GMT
>
>
> [...]
>
> As the boss of Jonathan Cape, Franklin has one of the most prestigious
> jobs in publishing, but puts a good deal down to luck....
>
> [...]
>
> But Franklin's favourite Cape author is Thomas Pynchon: Franklin
> emerged from an "amazing" experience at the University of East Anglia
> in the 1960s "without having read Middlemarch, but wanting to read
> Gravity's Rainbow, which is probably not ideal". He remembers how, as
> a sales assistant working for a small publisher, he stood behind a
> Jonathan Cape rep at a London bookshop, and watched him sell two
> copies of Pynchon's novel to them. "It was the book I was longing to
> read more than any in the history of the world. If you'd told me in
> 1970, 'You could end up publishing Pynchon', I wouldn't have believed
> you."
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/14/dan-franklin-jonathan-cape
>



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