Corner Office: Editor Ascendant: Michael Pietsch
Hachette's heir apparent talks about his new role, merger-mania, running the author's gauntlet and getting ribbed by Keith Richards.
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Lynn Rosen
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Traditionally an editor's work is more behind the scenes, yet with The Pale King, in the sad absence of an author, you stepped into the spotlight as the book's media spokesperson. What's it like to make that transition?
It was an invaluable education in the writer's experience. Undergoing media training, taking midday taxis to studios to talk intensely for 11 minutes and then be shuttled out to the street alone, talking in front of a large audience and answering their questions, being called to go sit in an empty studio at night in front of a screen for a satellite interview—all were dislocating and lessons in the performances we ask writers to do. Every editor, publicist and publisher should do it if they get the chance.
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