Darcy cosper biography of michael
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Revenge, by the book
DEBRA GINSBERG’S debut novel, “Blind Submission,” is a Revenge of the Entry-Level Employee fairy tale in the tradition of such books as “The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Nanny Diaries,” “The Second Assistant” and “The Twins of Tribeca.” And, true to genre, it features an attractive, gifted young woman; a villainous boss; assorted co-workers of the treacherous, clueless and sycophantic varieties; a love interest or two; and a few industry-related set pieces.
But these mass-market attributes are strangely at odds with and likely to deter the tweedy reader who might otherwise look favorably upon a book that takes place in a literary agency, a setting conspicuously lacking the allure of fashion, film and Upper East Side society, the glamorous and moneyed milieus in which such tales usually unfold.
Ginsberg gamely overcompensates, sexing things up for her readers. The novel’s heroine, Angel Robinson, is an olive-skinned lovely with waist-length tresses described as “titian” who modeled her way through college. But she’s also “a passionate reader able to devour whole tomes at a single sitting,” whose “unquenchable appetite” produces a “dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages.” One can only
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The Offing, a new on the internet literary journal, launches detect Los Angeles
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Candor is My Default Position
1. What was your last bite?
I’m sure it was in February after I allowed someone else’s temper
to get the better of me. And then my temper flared. And then my fangs surfaced. And then my bite broke skin.
I regret it. The aftertaste stayed for weeks.
2. Tell us about your work for The Offing.
A good friend of mine, Darcy Cosper, contacted me last year to let me know that she was starting a new magazine via the Los Angeles Review of Books. She asked me to come on board as an executive editor and, hands down, it’s one of the better choices I’ve made in this lifetime. I admire The Offing’s commitment to be a conduit for literary conversations happening on the periphery. I’ve always contended that art created at the boundary by marginalized risk takers is most compelling, and The Offing wants to be a home for those voices.
I’m lucky enough to help steer the direction alongside Darcy, who is now at the helm as editor in chief, and Michael D. Snediker, our brilliant co-executive editor. We have a staff of fiercely intelligent (and demographically representative) department editors and associate editors who are walking in the original vision of the magazine. And our contributors are serious business, flat out. It’s a wild and humblin