The Art of Editing
What does an editor do? How does she work with a writer to think about the ideas, structure, and style of a piece of writing? How is editing a magazine different from editing a book, a radio show, a streaming series, or a documentary film? How does an editor manage political, ethical, economic, or factual challenges with writers and readers? What is the future of editing in literary culture? The 2024-25 Shapiro Speaker series, "The Art of Editing," will answer these questions through a series of interviews with Merve Emre, Professor and Director of the Center, and ten of the visionary editors at the leading literary and cultural publications of our day: The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, The Yale Review, NPR, FSG, Simon & Schuster, and more. All events are free and open to the public.
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Jackson Howard
Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn. He’s Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprints MCD and AUWA (headed by Questlove), where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he has published include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Laura van den Berg, Sarah Schulman, Catherine Lacey, Jonathan Escoffery, Fernando A. Flores, Susan Straight, Venita Blackburn, Imogen Binnie, Henry Hoke, Thomas Grattan, Missouri Williams, and many others. Books he has edited have won or been nominated for the Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. As a writer, his reviews, profiles, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, The Cut, Rolling Stone, The Ringer, W., i-D, office, Document, and elsewhere. He is part of the team behind the FSG Writer’s Fellowship, and is passionate about efforts to increase transparency and access within publishing at large.
Schedule
11/19/2024: Jackson Howard
02/04/2025: Zakiya Dalila Harris
02/18/2025: Sasha Weiss
03/04/2025: Ben Calhoun
04/22/2025: Yahdon Israel
Archived Schedule
09/17/2024: Emily Greenhouse
10/08/2024: Kaitlyn Greenidge
10/29/2024: Meghan O'Rourke