Q&A …

… Shop Talk — Levi Stahl discusses editing Donald Westlake. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The letters were the cream of the experience for me. I love, love, love reading writers’ letters (as anyone who follows me on Twitter can attest), and getting to go through all the correspondence Westlake had preserved and select a handful that I thought would interest his fans was a sheer joy. I still think they’re some of the most fun pages in the whole book.