1. My high school teacher Allan Damon; never had a line editor like that. 2. In grad school, I wrote an essay about being blacklisted. Vivian Gornick read it and thundered at me, "You have to earn that last sentence." It was a transformational moment for me about pacing andhttps://twitter.com/feinsod/status/1374037710969708547 …
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structure. 3. These editors at various magazines and newspapers and publishing houses: Alex Star, John Palattella, Sara Bershtel, @petersenplusone,
@xlorentzen, and Sharan Setty. 4. One of the misconceptions that a lot of academic writers have about editors at commercial2 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
presses or magazines/newspapers is that they help you with writing at the level of sentences or even structure. That's true, but the best editors, like the ones I've mentioned here, challenge you much more deeply at the level of thought. I've been very lucky in peer review but
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no academic peer reviewer and very few other academics have ever challenged me on the fundamental elements of an argument the way Sara Bershtel or Sharan Setty or any of the other editors mentioned here have. I mean everything from "I don't think this is true and you haven't
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persuaded me that it is" to the faulty leaps of logic to the weakness of empirical support to everything. The problem with most academic readers is that their entire orientation is to "the literature" or the canons of their fields (not to bring a sore subject of recent memory).
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Academics, oddly, are not actually all that well equipped to ask, to demand, that your claims be true, precisely because they are disciplinary creatures in every sense of the word (even the ones who are interdisciplinary). This, for me, is ultimately why academics should write,
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when they can and when given the opportunity (a huge problem of resources, networks, race and gender, and more), for editors outside of academia.
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A lot of the great New York intellectuals who were gifted writers happened to be married to excellent editors (Hofstadter and Trilling leap to mind). The end of the exploitive model of the academic editor- wife hasn't led to the creation of a non-exploitive replacement.
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