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

[Henry M]

Umm, University of East Anglia.  Isn't that the school where those
global warming scientists...

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> [...]
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>> 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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> "liber enim librum aperit."
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