Some interesting, if more offbeat than usual, “people” stories: Vanity Fair executive literary editor Wayne Lawson is well-known to many in book publishing, both for his editorial skills and his mentoring of talented people. Lawson is retiring, and VF “bids farewell to a cherished editor.” The late Andre Schiffrin’s daughter Anya has written a piece for Reuters about the compassionate, humane and also very inexpensive cancer and end-of-life care her father received in France, which incorporates a remembrance of his final days. “Every time I sit on hold now with the billing department of my New York doctors and insurance […]
