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DFW’s response to editing

October 13, 2009

“This is one of my personal favorite Swiftian lines in the whole manuscript, which I will cut, you rotter.” Editing DFW.

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“'Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it' was a frequent warning in the schoolrooms of my childhood, one typically given in connection with major events like the fall of Rome or the American revolution. But there is no more intimate connection to history than through our individual families. And with the rise of laws forbidding discussions of racist histories, sharing our own ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings has never been more urgent." My thoughts on acknowledgement genealogy — putting the micro in your macro, as someone on Twitter said this morning — are up at @guardian_us. Many thanks to editor Jessica Reed for allowing me to write at length on the subject, and to artist @jkey13 for the perfect illustration. And thanks as always to my @RandomHouse editor Andrea Walker (@andreabwalkerct) and my agent Julie Barer (@thebookgrp) for the encouragement. #ancestortrouble

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