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Blake Bailey

“But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.”

Blake Bailey, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
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