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editing

“Edit with a pen, as if you were conducting a symphony”

John Fea   |  October 15, 2024

I loved this piece on the late magazine editor and writer Lewis Lapham. The author is Elias Altman, a former Lapham staffer. I was a regular reader of Lapham’s Quarterly before it went on hiatus. Now that Lapham is gone, […]

Are you editing or baking with small children?

Nadya Williams   |  October 6, 2023

Sometimes you really just can’t tell

Robert Gottlieb, RIP

John Fea   |  June 16, 2023

Last weekend I watched the documentary Turn Every Page. Here is the trailer: Before I watched his documentary I knew that Robert Gottlieb was Robert Caro’s editor and he was the editor-in-chief at Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, but that […]

Wikipedia editors speak out

John Fea   |  June 15, 2023

I do not allow my students to use Wikipedia as a source in their research papers. But I do encourage them to go to Wikipedia to learn more about their topics. Sometimes Wikipedia footnotes can lead students to sources that […]

The adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

John Fea   |  January 24, 2023

I am looking forward to watching the documentary “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb“ Here is the trailer: Lizzie Gottlieb, the daughter of Robert Caro’s editor Bob Gottlieb, recently spoke with Literary Hub’s Lisa Liebman.. […]

Dispose of “very”

John Fea   |  October 19, 2022

Benjamin Dreyer offers an important writing tip in a recent piece at The New York Times. A taste: …though I would never fault the supreme lyricist Johnny Mercer for the gorgeous “You’re much too much / And just too very very,” I […]