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

[James Kyllo]

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Umm, University of East Anglia.  Isn't that the school where those
> global warming scientists...
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> AsB4,
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> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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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