Sublime

If,

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding new writers, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”

The six Mitchell pieces that would eventually constitute his book, The Bottom of the Harbor, a classic of American nonfiction,

“the head throb heartlike”:

What I prized was seriousness. I wanted to apply it to some small world, hidden in this larger one.

I believe he was wondering whom he might be for the rest of his life;

Maggie Jones

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