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    Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?

    Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?

    Sara Nelson Out, Sharon Waxman In

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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    07/16/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    It's like having to choose between Marbury and Madison.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    04/17/09

    In reply to Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?
    Hmmm... I don't know Sara, but it sounds like she just got a karmic payback. Many very talented people can't make a fucking dime in publishing these days because the doors guarding the sacred ring of success are manned by people who do things like decide, without reading a ms, that it isn't worthy -- of publication, or their valuable editing time or a *star* or whatever it is that they are in charge of.


    So Sara, now you know the secret: when you're desperate to get work and people know it, some of them enjoy your situation no matter how good you are. You reinforce their superiority and in the end it really isn't worth your time to deal with assholes, is it?

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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    04/17/09

    In reply to Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?
    Trip Gabriel truly gets off on treating "little" people -- clerks, copy editors, etc. -- like shit, so how much joy might he get in being like that to someone with a "name"?


    Then again, I don't think "I'm sorry," however insincere, is in his vocabulary.

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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    04/17/09

    In reply to Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?
    She seems quintessentially annoying.


    Having said that, she's recently written a bunch for the Daily Beast and a bit for the LA Times. I'm guessing the asshole editor is from the LAT, and the Daily Beast "posted" her piece immediately.

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    Image of flossy flossy
    04/17/09

    @Solomon Grundy: But is Tina Brown's internet circle-jerk really considered a "better" publication than the LA Times?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/17/09

    @flossy: To those with their hands on the hotdogs, yes.
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    Image of karion karion
    04/17/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: I couldn't heart this comment enough.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    04/17/09

    In reply to Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?
    Let me be the first to say that almost everyone I know in the publishing industry was quite happy that Sara got fired.


    And why is that?


    Because she stayed too long in the job, played favorites and let the power go to her head. Several years ago I edited a first-time novelist who was supposed to be given a "starred" review and Sara removed the star.


    Although she admitted to me on the phone that she had not read the book, she "sensed" that it was not worthy of PW's "spotlight."


    Journalist in general start to believe that the power of their magazine/newspaper somehow means that people actually care about their personal insights, etc.


    Now back to our regular broadcast: Kari Ferrell... all the time.

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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    04/17/09

    @smithhimself: Hold it, you're saying Sara has cancer?
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    04/17/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: nah, she just hearts hijabs.
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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    04/17/09

    @Solomon Grundy: But was that thickness in her throat a hotdog?
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/17/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: It was the result of giving a handjob with her mouth.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    04/17/09

    @smithhimself: Why was the book supposed to be given a star>
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    04/17/09

    @Perhaps Not:


    Have you read PW? There are a handful of starred hardback books in every issue. The star may seem like a minor point to people not in publishing, but it really does help you with library sales and advance orders.


    The novel I'm mentioned got an all-out rave from the reviewer. A real "money" review. Normally, it would get a star. But, for a variety of personal reasons, Sara didn't like the writer.


    Yes, this sounds trivial. But it felt like I was talking to the Queen on the phone. I hung up, and screamed FUCK YOU! -- scaring my intern.


    Smithhimself is a cynical bastard with a bad liver, but (don't tell anyone) some editors actually care about our writers.


    Now can we PLEASE go back to Keri?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/18/09

    @smithhimself: Oh, smithhim. I wish I could put you through the color xerox machine and sprinkle you liberally all over midtown Manhattan.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    It's like having to choose between a used tampon and a used condom.
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    Image of KarenUhOh KarenUhOh
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    The tension here is almost as thick as when Pussy Galore drew the short tampon and had to choose between Matt Helm and Derek Flint.
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    Image of Pop Socket Pop Socket
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    Which one gets more tail? Because that will affect my choice.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    Why do we have to be one or the other? That's so Kierkegaardian, and Michael Hirschorn reads Nabokov. Why not go the Hirschorn route -- Atlantic contributing editor and former TV executive and founder of the TV production company. TV is so much cooler than EITHER public radio OR the magazine industry, and the gravitas of The Atlantic washes away some of the meh of reality tv.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    There's no third option?


    (though if not...no question, Kurt all the way. And not just because of the hair issue)

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    Wrong! I would not mind being Sara Nelson. And if you do not know who she is, I guess books are not your thing.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    I think we can all agree on one thing here: nobody wants to be Sara Nelson, whoever the fuck she is.
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    Image of Helman Helman
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    I'm just gonna say it: I like Kurt Andersen.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    We hope that Graydon Carter's hair in no way influenced this decision.


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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    03/05/09

    @BadUncle: "Oh, that wonderful hair."
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    Image of gobblegirl gobblegirl
    03/05/09

    In reply to Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
    I'd rather be James Madison, from whom Graydon Carter stole that hairstyle.
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