Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Albizu and Muñoz Marín had gone their separate ways after that dinner. Muñoz Marín joined the government; Albizu, after the violence of the thirties and his conviction for conspiracy, spent more than a decade on the mainland in federal custody.

Il m’avait raconté à La Closerie des Lilas comment il écrivait des nouvelles qu’il croyait bonnes, et qui l’étaient effectivement, pour le Post, et comment ensuite il les modifiait avant de les soumettre à des magazines, sachant exactement par quels trucs transformer ses nouvelles en textes publiables dans tel ou tel périodique. J’avais été scandal

When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm-bound by bad weather. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they