What writers look for when they read a novel
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Ed., Belinda Castles
As
The Sydney Morning Heraldâs new literary editor in 1996, I dashed off a note to writer Debra Adelaide, asking her to review Kate Jenningsâ first novel,
Snake. Twenty-five years later, Iâm thrilled to see the ripples of enjoyment and influence set off by my choice of a perceptive reader.
Within days of learning that Jennings had died in New York this month, I read about Adelaideâs long relationship with
Alison Lewis
Alison Lewis ’14 talks to intern
Rachel Horowitz-Benoit ’21 about her career, Middlebury, and new books she’s excited about.
Rachel Horowitz-Benoit: When were you an intern at
NER and what was a highlight (or anything you remember doing) of your experience?
Alison Lewis: The highlight was always discussing fiction submissions trying out my own very nascent editorial opinions, and hearing Carolyn Kuebler’s shockingly wise and perceptive insights. There were two stories we read from the general submissions pile during my time at
NER that ended up getting published, and I remember the awe of feeling each of those stories open up for me as Carolyn talked about them.
An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great
Literary Minds We Lost This Year
December 18, 2020
The year is at an end, and I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say: good riddance. (While we don’t have any guarantee that 2021 will be an improvement, it seems like it would have to be.) Among the many unhappinesses of this year, we lost what seems like an unusually large number of members of the literary community, from poets to novelists to editors to critics to publishers to booksellers. To them, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. They will be missed.