Radhika Jones On Editing

Welcome to Season Two of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of Editing. This season, successful a bid of unrecorded conversations, Merve Emre asks nan smartest and savviest editors really nan sausage gets made. What happens down nan scenes astatine a magazine? How does an thought go a book? And really do you activity pinch those unusual and difficult creatures we telephone writers?

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Radhika Jones is nan 5th editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. She antecedently held elder editorial roles astatine The New York Times, Time, and The Paris Review. She besides was nan managing editor astatine Grand Street, an editor astatine Artforum, and nan arts editor of The Moscow Times, wherever she began her career. Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. successful English and comparative lit from Columbia, wherever she has besides taught courses successful penning and literature. Born successful New York City, she grew up successful Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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