True Grit
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American Lit’s Reclusive Editor
Without editor Robert Gottlieb, contemporary classics such as True Grit and Catch-22 might not exist in the forms we know them—but that doesn’t seem to move him. In a rare interview for the Guardian, Michelle Dean visited Gottlieb at his…
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Jake Cline: The Last Book I Loved, True Grit
When I grow up, I want to be Mattie Ross. Of course, a legion of realities stands between me and this goal, chief among them: • At 38, I am biologically and, I’d like to think, emotionally mature, which places…