She's in Love with the Judith Jones World
(with apologies to the Clash)

Ed found a Baltimore Sun profile of Knopf senior editor Judith Jones, who currently works with Anne Tyler and John Updike but has handled English translations of Camus and Sartre, Sylvia Plath's poems, and Julia Child's recipes in her 46-year career...as well as rescuing Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl from Doubleday's slush pile. Updike, apparently, doesn't like to talk about his books-in-progress, but because's he a good green (at least in one regard), she can piece together the clues:

"He'll never waste paper," she says, "so he'll write me a note on the back of a manuscript page that he's thrown away, and I'll snatch it up and get a glimpse of what he's working on."