The Expert Editor

A book I taught for the better part of two decades reads like a different novel to me now than it did in my thirties. Same paperback, same underlined passages from ...

The first draft of a chapter comes out of a writer in a rush some mornings — messy, but moving. Then the second pass arrives, and the same writer sits...

A reader opens a long article on their phone, gets three paragraphs in, and starts thumbing down the screen in short, fast strokes — eyes catching a bolded phrase h...

You finish a good book, close it with the pleasant sense that you have understood it, and a month later you can recall the cover, a gener...

Most writers who submit manuscripts for editing understand their argument. They know what they want to say. The chapters hold together, the reasoning...