The Art of Editing Series
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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Yahdon Israel
PLACEHOLDER TEXAT Idra Novey is the author most recently of Take What You Need, a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and two other novels. Her second poetry collection Exit, Civilian was chosen by Patricia Smith for the National Poetry Series. She is the co-translator with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, Lean Against This Late Hour, a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize in 2021. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She teaches creative writing at Princeton University.