1.   Gordon Lish, the fiction editor who has guided many a fledgling career, also bows to Friedman.

2.   Ms. Adler asserts that the fiction editors had conflicts of interest because they were vying to publish their own short stories in the magazine.

3.   The fiction department has been run in recent years by three senior editors who are writers themselves and who also served as fiction editors.

4.   The fiction editor, Will Blythe, resigned in protest.

5.   Fiction editor Bill Buford remembers his introduction to Diaz.

6.   The idea for the book came during a conversation with Bill Buford, literary and fiction editor for The New Yorker.