{"id":12312,"date":"2007-12-06T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T22:30:36","slug":"the-dwarf-and-the-dominatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/06\/the-dwarf-and-the-dominatrix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dwarf and the Dominatrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Lydia Millet was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6504648.html?industryid=47147\" target=\"_blank\"> interviewed<\/a> in the November 26th issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/a> on the occasion of the release of her new book, <i>How the Dead Dream<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HowtheDeadDream.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HowtheDeadDream-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"HowtheDeadDream\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HowtheDeadDream-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HowtheDeadDream.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how she characterized her time working a staff job in magazine publishing before she chucked it all and devoted herself to her writing&#151;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>She did, however, land a copyediting job in Larry Flynt&#8217;s magazine empire. &#8220;I started out working for a magazine called <\/i>Fighting Knives<i>, edited by a mercenary in South America, so when they offered me a slot at <\/i>Hustler<i>, I jumped to the porn side happily.&#8221; She sold her first book, <\/i>Omnivores<i> (Algonquin, 1996) during the two years at <\/i>Hustler<i> and says she learned a lot from the philosophy of the prisoners who made up a large part of the subscription base. And then there was her gun-running managing editor, a dwarf whose dominatrix visited once a month and destroyed the furniture in his office.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#038;#151which makes the life of the science-fiction editor seem so mundane by comparison!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Lydia Millet was interviewed in the November 26th issue of Publishers Weekly on the occasion of the release of her new book, How the Dead Dream. Here&#8217;s how she characterized her time working a staff job in magazine publishing before she chucked it all and devoted herself to her writing&#151; She did, however, land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[369,281,368,26],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-larry-flynt","tag-locus","tag-lydia-millet","tag-publishers-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}