Who are some of the notable authors you worked with-and what are some notable projects you worked on-before you started at O? Do I love the book? Will our readers? And are we helping them to discover new talent or writers they’ve never read before, especially women writers? Are we finding books that will challenge or delight them? That’s our mission. But I like to try to approach the job itself as a reader, plain and simple. Many of my book publishing colleagues-authors, editors, publishers, agents, publicists, media colleagues-I’ve known them for decades, which helps inform everything I do at O. I am so steeped in the book world-it helps me stay on top of what’s coming out when, especially given that we work so far in advance, when there are no indicators of the reception a book will receive. How does your former experience as a publicist and editor inform your role today? You later worked in publicity for several years at Ballantine and Avon, and after that, in editorial for many years at Scribner, Hyperion, and Rodale and as a freelancer. He passed away last year, sadly, but that was a universe I am lucky to have glimpsed up close, and, yes, it did lead me to publishing. My first boss there was William McPherson, who’d just won the Pulitzer for criticism.
It was soon after Watergate, so the Post was a glamorous and iconic place, filled with characters. I arrived there not realizing there was an industry behind the books I loved reading-I’d never thought about it before. What was it like working there? Did it make you want to forge a path within the publishing world?
You got your start in the literary world as a copy aide at the Washington Post Book World in the late 1970s.
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