Gordon Lish: ‘Had I not revised Carver, would he be paid the attention given him? Baloney!’

It’s the custom for editors to keep a low profile and to underplay any changes they may make to an author’s manuscript. Gordon Lish is a different animal. Not since Maxwell Perkins has an editor been so famous – or notorious – as a sculptor of other people’s prose. But his collaborations have not always ended amicably. Christian Lorentzen talks to the legendary editor.
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