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http://blog.editors.ca/?p=2945 August 4, 2015 | Filed under:Melva McLean and tagged with:book editors, famou s editors, film, Genius It’s called Genius, and it stars Colin Firth, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Due for release just before Christmas (and award season), the film, touted as “t he bio-pic of the year,” is about a book editor. Yup. You read that correctl y. An editor. Colin Firth plays Charles Scribner’s Sons fiction editor Maxwell Perkins in a screenplay based on the biography by A. Scott Berg: Max Perkins: Editor of Ge nius. Charles Scribner’s Sons was both a publisher and a bookseller, and when Perki ns was hired it was his idea to supplement the company’s “popular” — and l ucrative — fiction line with works by new, more literary voices. Among the many writers Perkins worked with were Taylor Caldwell, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawl ings and Thomas Wolfe. There are so many more, but it is Perkins’s relationsh ip with Thomas Wolfe that has intrigued and mystified writing, editing and pub lishing scholars for decades (Berg’s biography and Perkins’s letters to Wolf e and Hemingway are on the reading lists of many publishing programs). Perkins was known for being a substantive editor who believed the work belonge d to the author. During the editing of The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgeral d was doubtful of some editorial suggestions from Perkins. When Fitzgerald exp ressed these reservations in a letter, Perkins wrote back, angrily, that Fitzg erald was the writer: “Don’t ever defer to my judgment!” he replied (qtd. in Berg, 44). In Genius, Jude Law plays Thomas Wolfe and Nicole Kidman plays Aline Bernstein , Wolfe’s mistress, a married woman twice his age. The film deals with Perkin s’s personal relationship with the couple and his professional one with Wolfe , which started out as mutual admiration, morphed into an almost father-son re lationship and then ended so very, very badly. Was it a personal quarrel? A professional one? Did Wolfe feel that Perkins had overstepped his bounds, no longer letting the work belong to the writer? Or d id Perkins realize the darling writer he’d talked Scribner’s into publishing wasn’t the writer he thought he was? It will be interesting to see what Genius, the movie, comes up with. of nothi ng else, it will be amazing to see a film about an editor. -- Sent from my Android -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 223.136.238.218 ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/ColinFirth/M.1438758570.A.B3B.html ※ 編輯: BellaWang (223.136.238.218), 08/05/2015 15:16:09