Jeffrey St. Clair

@JSCCounterPunch ↗

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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

@ishmaelreed may not recall this but the first time I got a submission from him I was so excited I called one of my old professors who'd given me a copy of Yellow Back Radio-Broke Down back in 78 to gloat about it. Then I started editing into according to CP stylesheet... — PolitiTweet.org

@JSCCounterPunch Oh it wasn't pristine, but he made clear early on that a scalpel not a chainsaw was what he would… https://t.co/UyRvEXiqQp

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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Alex could take it, grudgingly. He was a fast but dreadful typist and never once in 20 years used the spellcheck on his Mac. Plus several of the keys had been pulverized by his cockatiel. So his copy when sent to me rarely arrived "pristine." — PolitiTweet.org

For 4 years in the late 80s early 90s I was Cockburn's copyeditor at the Village Voice. He did not have an editor,… https://t.co/vUBa4Unwfl

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& sent the story back to the great man, thinking I'd polished it up like a low-rent William Shawn. A few minutes later, Ishmael sent me an email consisting of four words: "Let Reed be Reed!" I printed it out and 20 yrs later it remains pinned to the wall in my office. — PolitiTweet.org

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