(What We Had Hoped Would Be) A Brief Conversation with Allan Fallow, Book Editor of AARP The Magazine   1. You worked as a senior editor at National Geographic Books from 1999 to 2002. What were some of your favorite titles? It was a thrill to edit David Mamet—he wrote a book called South of theContinue reading

Before embarking on any author/editor relationship, I—as the editor—like to get to know the other person at least a little bit. That way I can avoid the true crazies and focus on the merely wildly eccentric (and what writer worth his/her salt isn’t a little bit crazy?). And after my first conversation with Jonathan Evison,Continue reading