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I recently realized that next month (January, 2009) will mark my 30th anniversary in publishing.

I got my first publishing job in January, 1979, when I interviewed with the personnel director at G. P. Putnam’s. I had decided that there was no point in continuing with my graduate school studies (the job market was awful, and I was getting pretty tired of academia), so I had this vague notion of becoming an editor.

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