BROWSING THE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF Look! We Have Come Through!, Lara Feigel’s excellent study of D.H. Lawrence, the Secret Author noted an unusually discreet sentence about the book’s editor, Mike Fishwick, and his recent retirement from its sponsors, Bloomsbury Publishing.
The discretion lay in Ms Feigel’s use of the word “retired”. For Fishwick, a gentleman in his early sixties, had, as anyone in the world of publishing knows, suffered a rather crueller end to his time in the industry: he had simply been made redundant.
What might be called the Fishwick phenomenon — the talented