Journalist. Editor. The anesthetic wearing off.
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Also of note: Choire responds.
Is it Charles McGrath, who wrote “Robert Caro’s Big Dig,” (New York Times Magazine, 12 April 2012):
It’s not writing that takes Caro so long but, rather, rewriting. In college he was such a quick and facile writer, and so speedy a typist, that one of his teachers, the critic R. P. Blackmur,…
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Also of note: Choire responds.
excellently highlighted by Jack Dickey
read the whole thing. Then go here: http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/man-storms-off-internet-goodbye-chris-jones
Hilariously, it’s Jones’ feature, not McGrath’s — McGrath’s...more satisfying, less...