Word: editor
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...probably no coincidence that some two years after Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things became an international best seller, more novels by young writers with roots in India are showing up on this side of the world. "Editors will grab at what's in the air," says Sybil Steinberg, fiction editor at Publishers Weekly. But the next Arundhati Roy may not materialize soon. She is a rare delight: a gifted writer who looks like the village beauty in a Satyajit Ray film. Nevertheless, what is called Indian-English fiction hasn't had so much attention since Muslim clerics...
...reason may be partly sociological. "Most of the writers who are using the English language belong to a very, very microscopic section of the country, which is fairly divorced from what the country is actually about," says Raj Kamal Jha, 33, a novelist and editor with a regular paycheck from the Indian Express in New Delhi...
...Angela in increasingly unprofessorial ways despite his seemingly sturdy marriage. Though he suspects she may be unstable--and a pathological liar to boot--Angela's pull leads Swenson to a bungled sexual encounter and what proves to be an ill-advised promise to show her work to his editor...
Rebecca Gilman's new play, Boy Gets Girl, having its premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, eases us so skillfully into an utterly recognizable world--Theresa is a single magazine editor whose (largely arid) love life is the object of curiosity to friends and co-workers alike--that its unraveling grabs us with special power. Tony, the good-looking but rather clueless date, won't stop calling. He shows up unannounced in her office. There are signs he's watching her apartment. Soon Theresa has a stalker on her hands. And we have one of the finest, most disturbing American...
...have seen the best-paid minds of my generation urinate. That's because my editor agreed to send me to the Oscars only if I spent the entire time in the men's bathroom. That's because my editor is a mean, bitter woman who has serious jealousy issues about my career and wants to sleep with me. I'm very good at this revenge thing...