Faith Sale, P's editor, again

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.  It seems likely to me, the way Heller and much of NY publsihing can work, that Heller didn't
just come to see the smarts behind her edits, but asked around, heard the legendary stories about 
her work, perhaps the Pynchon story, others from her authors, so he too just trusted her when he
did not want to argue over each fragment. 

From: Ben Canard <bencanard2000 at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Faith Sale, P's editor, again



But Pynchon also knew Faith for years and therefore had developed trust in her.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

Yeah, this was the major reason I posted the same reaction from Heller. Legendary editor and we can see
>why. 
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>From: Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com>
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Faith Sale, P's editor, again
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>from Unscrewing the navel allusion:"October 1-2 (1962) letter not only confirms one of the substantial galley-stage cuts, but also shows that, remarkably, Pynchon let Sale decide a number of details for herself at the last moment when he was "neutral" about them." 
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>That Pynchon trusted Faith Sale to make edits without his oversight is a testimony to Faith Sales' professional integrity and dependability AND to Pynchon's good judge of character early in their literary careers. Careers fraught with portent (Bullwinkle).
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>On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Faith was hired to edit Heller's and Vogel's No Laughing Matter in the late 70s. She said she was star-
>>struck, not imagining this writer she revered ever needed his words, as she read them,  edited. 
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>>But she did offer suggestions over early pages. Heller did not respond, meaning he wouldn't change
>>anything. She offered more again, next set of pages. No response. She felt he wouldn't change anything.
>>Sent over the next batch and he accepted all the suggestions back to the first set. After awhile, Heller
>>told her to change it as she thought right, he'd sign off on them all.
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