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Title: An Editor's Story
Review: "What Is An Editor: Saxe Commins at Work" is the biography of a well-known editor in the book-publishing trade, written by his widow Dorothy. It's a specialized subject and would appeal to "book people" interested in Saxe Commins' work and associations with a stable of writers that included William Faulkner and Budd Schulberg. The kind of editing skills and interaction with authors that Saxe brought to the literary world are nowhere in evidence today, when novels are marketed like sausages and sold by the pound. For aficionados, this book will remind you of what has been lost.- Al Hooper, Edmonds, WA
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