Adam Moss

We started a section on the entertainment industry. And one of Lee's ideas was that he would put a movie store with a big literary person. I remember William Styron and Candice Bergen. My job was to...

go to the thing and set up the tape recorder and then make sure everybody was happy but then he would give me the transcript he would say what do you find interesting in this slowly but surely i would see what he thought was interesting in it and then i would watch him as he constructed this thing into a exciting little bit of conversation that worked in a printed form he was extremely good so just being able to watch him

go to the thing and set up the tape recorder and then make sure everybody was happy but then he would give me the transcript he would say what do you find interesting in this slowly but surely i would see what he thought was interesting in it and then i would watch him as he constructed this thing into a exciting little bit of conversation that worked in a printed form he was extremely good so just being able to watch him

go to the thing and set up the tape recorder and then make sure everybody was happy but then he would give me the transcript he would say what do you find interesting in this slowly but surely i would see what he thought was interesting in it and then i would watch him as he constructed this thing into a exciting little bit of conversation that worked in a printed form he was extremely good so just being able to watch him

took all of that data in my head and started to organize it. That was invaluable. One of the things that I hear a lot from younger editors is that they really resent doing the older editor's job for them because they feel it's exploitive, and it is. However, it's an incredible way to learn. I mean, it's apprenticeship.

took all of that data in my head and started to organize it. That was invaluable. One of the things that I hear a lot from younger editors is that they really resent doing the older editor's job for them because they feel it's exploitive, and it is. However, it's an incredible way to learn. I mean, it's apprenticeship.

took all of that data in my head and started to organize it. That was invaluable. One of the things that I hear a lot from younger editors is that they really resent doing the older editor's job for them because they feel it's exploitive, and it is. However, it's an incredible way to learn. I mean, it's apprenticeship.

Yes, and you talk it through, and in there is sharing of ideas, but also a kind of teaching. And sometimes the teaching goes both ways. This is really, I think, actually crucial. In almost every case where there is a mentor and mentee kind of thing, it goes both ways.

Yes, and you talk it through, and in there is sharing of ideas, but also a kind of teaching. And sometimes the teaching goes both ways. This is really, I think, actually crucial. In almost every case where there is a mentor and mentee kind of thing, it goes both ways.

Yes, and you talk it through, and in there is sharing of ideas, but also a kind of teaching. And sometimes the teaching goes both ways. This is really, I think, actually crucial. In almost every case where there is a mentor and mentee kind of thing, it goes both ways.

There was a generational difference, not a huge one, but I brought a bunch of generational assumptions to the table that he didn't have. I think there is that element of... New eyes, fresh eyes. Yeah, fresh eyes. And as you get older, you begin to dismiss certain things that aren't fully dismissible.

There was a generational difference, not a huge one, but I brought a bunch of generational assumptions to the table that he didn't have. I think there is that element of... New eyes, fresh eyes. Yeah, fresh eyes. And as you get older, you begin to dismiss certain things that aren't fully dismissible.

There was a generational difference, not a huge one, but I brought a bunch of generational assumptions to the table that he didn't have. I think there is that element of... New eyes, fresh eyes. Yeah, fresh eyes. And as you get older, you begin to dismiss certain things that aren't fully dismissible.

It's chiefly the person who decides where the magazine's going to go, what the magazine covers and doesn't.

It's chiefly the person who decides where the magazine's going to go, what the magazine covers and doesn't.

It's chiefly the person who decides where the magazine's going to go, what the magazine covers and doesn't.

shaping the magazine's identity and its relationship to its readers it's a manager job the magazine is very very much a group enterprise that's one of the most wonderful things about it and it involves getting a whole bunch of people story editors like you were visual people copy editors production people all sorts of different kinds of people to work together as one so in that sense it's like a conductor of an orchestra

shaping the magazine's identity and its relationship to its readers it's a manager job the magazine is very very much a group enterprise that's one of the most wonderful things about it and it involves getting a whole bunch of people story editors like you were visual people copy editors production people all sorts of different kinds of people to work together as one so in that sense it's like a conductor of an orchestra

shaping the magazine's identity and its relationship to its readers it's a manager job the magazine is very very much a group enterprise that's one of the most wonderful things about it and it involves getting a whole bunch of people story editors like you were visual people copy editors production people all sorts of different kinds of people to work together as one so in that sense it's like a conductor of an orchestra

It's very rarely what people think of as editors, which is the person who fixes sentences. Although you did your share of that. I did my share of that, but that's not the chief job description. The chief job description is the overall direction of the thing.