Art WinslowExcellent extended interview with Gordon Lish, whose views on writing, editing and life itself -- access to the sublime -- are insightful.
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6423/the-art-of-editing-no-2-gordon-lish?fbclid=IwAR3fpEfZvVEtp8U0kNWFMhAlCSjHdXHTfHravqTxgGBLxYIl-xcumMm9IY0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
The Art of Editing No. 2
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. As ficti...