Richard Babcock was the editor of Chicago magazine for two decades until his retirement last year. He is the author of two previous novels, Martha Calhoun and Bow s Boy, and of the bestselling Kindle Singles My Wife s Story and Ah, Rat.
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John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. His overwhelming ambition is to flee the bland, over polite Midwest and land in New York—where, he imagines, he’ll work with real writers; brandish succe... SEE MORE