Robert Weil Q and A

       In The Los Angeles Times Irene Lacher has The Sunday Conversation: Robert Weil, the former W.W.Norton publisher now: "at the helm of the company's recently revived imprint, Liveright & Co".
       Among his observations:

I think we have to encourage places to train editors how to edit. I think we're losing touch with the craft of editing.

       Amen to that (though I'm not sure it's a realistic goal ...).
       But then he also says:

I think books can often be shorter, and they have to be snappier.

       They have to be snappier ? (Please, no; I don't need the slightest bit of snappiness.)