{"id":3961,"date":"2019-02-11T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/hemingway-on-wolfe\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:18:15","slug":"hemingway-on-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/hemingway-on-wolfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway on Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/is-line-editing-a-lost-art\/\">Is Line Editing a Lost Art?<\/a> Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Manuscripts, and spirits, are often saved by line editors. Ernest Hemingway began an October 1949 letter to Charles Scribner already in a mood: \u201cThe hell with writing today.\u201d Then he opines about editor Maxwell Perkins and the novelist Thomas Wolfe: \u201cIf Max hadn\u2019t cut ten tons of shit out of Wolfe <em>everybody<\/em> would have known how bad it is after the first book. Instead only pros like me or people who drink wine, not labels, know.\u201d Years earlier, Hemingway had warned Perkins about his personality: \u201cplease remember that when I am loud mouthed, bitter, rude, son of a bitching and mistrustful I am really very reasonable and have great confidence and absolute trust in you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>MavPhil<\/em> suggestion: delete the commas in the initial sentence. Read the sentence out loud both ways and you will see that I am right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Hyphens are a source of writerly vexation. I would have written &#39;loud-mouthed.&#39; Papa was probably into his cups.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Line Editing a Lost Art? Excerpt: Manuscripts, and spirits, are often saved by line editors. Ernest Hemingway began an October 1949 letter to Charles Scribner already in a mood: \u201cThe hell with writing today.\u201d Then he opines about editor Maxwell Perkins and the novelist Thomas Wolfe: \u201cIf Max hadn\u2019t cut ten tons of shit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/hemingway-on-wolfe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hemingway on Wolfe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}