Gerry Howard
Gerry Howard on Discovering, Editing, and Hatching David Foster Wallace: 'He Was the First Person Who Ever Called Me "Mister"'
Marion Ettlinger
Wallace
One thing we're going to try to do here this week at Media Mob is talk to some of the people who got the chance to edit David Foster Wallace over the course of his career.
Who knows how many of them we'll actually track down—there are lots, because DFW wrote pieces for so many different magazines—but we begin today with Doubleday editor-at-large Gerry Howard, who acquired and edited Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System when he was at Penguin in the mid-1980s, and his first collection of short stories, Girl With Curious Hair, a few years later at Norton. read more »
Boss George Steinbrenner: The Muse of Bronx Literature
I come to praise the Bronx, but first I want to bury the Yankees. God, I'm so glad they lost. read more »
