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New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hem | dG1fTWhwSV9pbGlMRTQ

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00:00Mr. Perkins, you must be Thomas Wolfe.

00:07I prefer to get my rejections in the mail, but I wanted to meet you.

00:10The man who first read Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and said genius.

00:13Every son-of-a-bitch publisher in New York hates my book.

00:16Mr. Wolfe, we intend to publish your book.

00:20Max, this is Mrs. Bernstein.

00:23Mr. Perkins.

00:24She's the first person who told me my writing was worth anything.

00:28They're calling you a genius, God help you.

00:29Now I'm a Scribner's bestseller.

00:32I deserve a little of the highlight.

00:34Max tells us you're working on a new book.

00:36It's about America.

00:37All of it.

00:38I have it.

00:39A new book.

00:40Bring it in, guys.

00:41Here you go.

00:44We can do it.

00:45How long?

00:46Nine months.

00:46If you resist the temptation to add more.

00:49I have to be able to add more.

00:50The book is 5,000 pages long.

00:53Point tight.

00:54All right.

00:55Cut, cut, cut.

00:56You've been working every night for two years.

00:59Do you have any idea what it's like coming home to an empty apartment every night?

01:03I've lost him.

01:04To your husband.

01:04Your daughters.

01:05They want their father back.

01:06It's my job.

01:07It's what I do.

01:08Two years and the book's only 100 pages short.

01:10I bring you stuff rich right from my gut.

01:13You wouldn't do this to Hemingway.

01:15To Fitzgerald.

01:16Stop it.

01:16You of all people just so damn scared to live.

01:20There are other ways to live.

01:21God help anyone who loves you, Tom.

01:23Because for all your millions of beautiful words, you haven't the slightest idea of what

01:27it means to be alive.

01:29Max thinks he created me.

01:31He crippled me.

01:32He deformed my world.

01:34He made all your dreams come true.

01:36He gave you a career.

01:38Look what you have done to me.

01:39You hurt me.

01:40I can't turn my back on the work.

01:42Make your choice, Tom.

01:44Right now.

01:46That's what we editors lose sleep over, you know?

01:49Are we really making books better or just making them different?

01:52In all my life, until I met you, I never had a friend.

01:56You have no idea what I had to go through so I can look at you and feel nothing.

02:04A writer like Tom, I get one in a lifetime.

02:06You get your daughters for the same lifetime.

02:09There's one paragraph I have to add to the book.

02:12I have to add.

02:13If you start adding paragraphs for something.

02:17This book is dedicated to Maxwell Everett Perkins.

02:21The author hopes this book will prove worthy of him.

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