Norton & Company, 2007 - Editing - 230 pages 9 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Using myriad examples from writers like Nabokov and of course the infamous Perkins-Fitzgerald partnership in addition to long snippets/quotes from writers speaking about how editing is an essential component to their own writing, Bell overthrows traditional or amateurish views of editorial work by pointing out that “Self-editors …should break their own editing rules or patterns to create something fresh.” In other words, editing, for Bell, is not the needed finishing touch on a writer’s novel, but “a way to discover a new voice…as yet unmapped route to a particular emotion or thought” (a quote that you find on the homepage of my blog). The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself Susan P. In fact, while this book delves into how “already established” writers incorporate editing/revision into their writing process, would-be editors can glean how the editorial process can manifest so much within one’s text, oftentimes bringing it to life or causing its demise.Įven though certain parts of Bell’s book are underdeveloped, she does do a superb job of making editing, well, artful.
Born in Massachusetts, she has lived in New York City since 1984, when she attended graduate school at Columbia University and earned a Master's degree in French Literature.Susan Bell’s 2007 book, The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself, aims to shed a different type of light on the editorial process, not only on the part of the editor but on the writer as well. Bell lectures at the Tin House Writer's Workshop in Portland, Oregon. The artful edit (2007 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstoodor simply overlookedart of editing. Bell is the writer and co-creator, with Mitch Epstein, of "What is American Power?", a not-for-profit billboard and website project to encourage responsible energy production and consumptionĪ former editor at Random House and Conjunctions magazine, she created a seminar on self-editing for the New School's Graduate Writing Program in New York City, and continues to teach there. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself: Written by Susan Bell, 2007 Edition, Publisher: W. The Artful Edit by Susan Bell, 2007, W.W. She has written for several venues, including Tin House, Vogue, The London Sunday Telegraph, and National Public Radio. Norton & Co., August, 2007), and co-author with Jason West of Dare to Hope: Saving American Democracy, a collection of essays on political activism (Miramax, 2005).
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