Open Book - The Editor

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Open Book Broadcast Sun 27 Dec 2009 160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss a generally unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor. Mariella talks to Diana Athill, the former editor of novelists including VS Naipaul, John Updike and Jean Rhys, and herself the author of Stet, an acclaimed memoir of her life in publishing. John Carey, the author of a recent biography of William Golding, explains how Golding's masterpiece Lord of the Flies was saved from the rejects pile - and extensively remodelled - by Golding's first editor. The editor and writer Jenny Uglow reveals some of the tricks of her trade, and the novelists Giles Foden and DJ Taylor discuss how novelists rely on - and sometimes ignore - their editors, from Dickens to the present day. Book List: Diana Athill: Life Class Publisher: Granta John Carey: William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies Publisher: Faber Giles Foden: Turbulence Publisher: Faber D J Taylor: Ask Alice Publisher: Chatto and Windus Jenny Uglow: A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration Publisher: Faber

Open Book 091227 The Editor.mp3