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Thoughts on publishing and form

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Thoughts on publishing and form

"The marketplace gave the writer his voice"

Elif Batuman
Aug 29, 2023
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Dear Readers! In the summer before my last year of college, I did an internship in the copy editing department at Simon & Schuster. This was in 1998 and the first book I remember working on was Arnold Schwartzenegger’s New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. At that time, nothing in publishing—at least nothing I had anything to do with—involved comput…

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