Bill Denton wrote on Tuesday December 30:
(snip)
> Doug Levin jokingly referred to these books as
"canon," and maybe
> that's what they'll be. Who edited the
collections?
Though the Library of America pretty much just lays the
novels out for
us with hardly a word of editorial material, the editor for
both volumes
is Robert Polito, with whom I am not familiar. The note one
an inner
page of each volume states simply that "Robert Polito
selected the
contents and wrote the notes for this volume." The "notes"
consist of
the back and inner dust jacket copy, nothing introducing each
novel or
editorial postscript to them. That's fine with me, it's the
novelists
words I want to read.
Time to go, I hear more champagne corks popping.
Rick
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