Sometimes, it’s how an editor does not insert themselves into a writer’s copy that is most notable.
Byron Dobell, a veteran editor who worked at Esquire, New York magazine, Time-Life Books and several other companies, passed away Jan. 21 at the age of 89. The New York Times obituary leads with the story of how Tom Wolfe, in the late stages of summer in 1963, ran into some writer’s block after exhaustively researching a piece for Esquire about Southern California car customizers.
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