The Art of Editing

Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

Amy Reading on Artistic Collaboration, Egotistical Male Editors, and the Idea of the Genius Editor

 
By Amy Reading  March 19, 2019
Essay

Is Line Editing a Lost Art?

By Nick Ripatrazone  February 6, 2019
In Memoriam

“Helmet, Kid, Bike.” Remembering Claudio López de Lamadrid

By Miguel Aguilar  January 18, 2019
Excerpts

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

By Carol Clark  January 8, 2019
Feature

Ursula K. Le Guin, Editing to the End

By David Naimon  May 22, 2018
Politics

“Diversity in Publishing” Doesn’t Exist—But Here’s How it Can

By Chris Jackson  October 10, 2017
The Art of Editing

7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

By Emily Temple  September 14, 2017
The Art of Editing

So You’ve Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit

By Terry McDonell  July 26, 2017
The Art of Editing

So You’ve Decided to Write: On Editing James Salter

By Terry McDonell  July 20, 2017
The Art of Editing

So You’ve Decide to Write: What I Learned Editing Hunter S. Thompson

By Terry McDonell  July 18, 2017
The Art of Editing

So You’ve Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison

By Terry McDonell  July 13, 2017
The Art of Editing

What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing

By Anna Pitoniak  January 17, 2017
Dear aspiring writer

How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

By David Attwell  September 29, 2016
The Art of Editing

The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.

By Michael Koryta  September 2, 2016
Essay

To All the Characters I’ve Killed Off, Who Haunt Me Still

By Stuart Nadler  August 10, 2016
Excerpts

The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 2, 2016
Conversations

How the Writer Researches: Annie Proulx

By John Freeman  July 7, 2016
Biography

On Max Perkins, One of America’s Greatest Editors

By A. Scott Berg  June 13, 2016
Conversations

How the Writer Edits: Julian Barnes

By John Freeman  May 26, 2016
Advice

Eight Writing Lessons from Hamilton: The Revolution

By Rob Hart  May 13, 2016
Conversations

Interview with a Gatekeeper: Graywolf’s Jeff Shotts

By Kerri Arsenault  January 29, 2016
Expert opinion

When the Editor Becomes the Writer

By Jill Bialosky  August 24, 2015
The Art of Editing

Let’s Not Get Too Holy: Editing Bukowski

By Abel Debritto  August 14, 2015
Essay

A Race Against Time: Editing Saul Bellow’s Last Novel

By Beena Kamlani  July 14, 2015
Essay

The Joy of Throwing Away An Entire Novel

By Laura Dave  June 17, 2015
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