Monday, January 09, 2006
The Evil That Men Do!
The literary editor was struck by today's Neil Steinberg column in the Sun-Times(scroll down to "A Stitch in Time"). In it, while paying a deserved compliment to their former architecture critic Lee Bey, he notes that Bey has coined a saying destined to become a cliche. Requesting his friend Steinberg to proofread his new book, Bey left the note "read it like you hate me." This invoked fond memories of the literary editor and the Monz working through the night (a couple hours - truth editor) at a smoke-filled big city coffeehouse (smoke free Starbucks in the burbs), running on caffeine and fumes (decaf and a pastry) while editing ("Dude, read this aloud." [some reading] "ok, I'll fix this.") a brilliant literary analysis (this much is true) while facing a fast approaching deadline (what deadline?). But those days are gone, kinda like the delicious liver sausage on whole grain sandwich, apple and cottage cheese that was Monz' lunch.
The literary editor was struck by today's Neil Steinberg column in the Sun-Times(scroll down to "A Stitch in Time"). In it, while paying a deserved compliment to their former architecture critic Lee Bey, he notes that Bey has coined a saying destined to become a cliche. Requesting his friend Steinberg to proofread his new book, Bey left the note "read it like you hate me." This invoked fond memories of the literary editor and the Monz working through the night (a couple hours - truth editor) at a smoke-filled big city coffeehouse (smoke free Starbucks in the burbs), running on caffeine and fumes (decaf and a pastry) while editing ("Dude, read this aloud." [some reading] "ok, I'll fix this.") a brilliant literary analysis (this much is true) while facing a fast approaching deadline (what deadline?). But those days are gone, kinda like the delicious liver sausage on whole grain sandwich, apple and cottage cheese that was Monz' lunch.
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