Recently I watched the 2016 film “Genius,” which is based on A. Scott Berg’s biography of Maxwell Perkins, called Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. (Berg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and his Perkins biography won the National Book Award).  You can check it out here. The film and book explore the often rocky process of turning creative fiction into a marketable product. Perkins, for those who don’t know the name, was the legendary editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons during the first half of the ... VIEW POST