"Average daily output of [Arthur J. Burks'] Underwood is four thousand words. In emergencies Burks can do three or four times this amount. Once, for example, Sky Fighters called him at ten in the morning and ordered three stories, a total of twelve thousand words. It got them by six in the evening, and Mr. Burks made two hundred and fifty dollars for his day's work. He never rereads his writings, either in manuscript or after they are published, and doesn't care what editors do to them."--From "Burks of the Pulps," a Talk of the Town item in the February 15, 1936 issue of the New Yorker.
(Thirteenth in a series. Will we make it to fifteen by year's end?)
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