WRITER, EDITOR, EDucator
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EDucating
I’m convinced that all liberal arts education boils down to two simple questions: Why do people disagree with one another? And what can we do about it? People often rush to answer the second question without lingering on the first. Disagreement, after all, can be uncomfortable. And yet the answer to the second question depends on the way we answer the first, and what it is that we want to accomplish together…
EDITING
People often say that an editor is your first reader. Which is funny, if you think about it, since a writer has almost certainly read and reread their work a good deal before submitting it for editing. But as a writer, I know that when I’m deep in my work, I sometimes worry that what I’m doing will make no sense to anyone but me. As an editor, I’m here to make sure that you do. I’m less interested in enforcing a set of arbitrary rules than in trying to read for everyone else. My responsibility is to help the writer anticipate the needs, questions, and objections that might be raised by other readers…
writing
Given the parameters and the right information, I’ve written about all sorts of things: theater for the disabled, the state of the US wine market, and the ethics of human embryonic stem-cell research. Left to my own devices, however, my research and writing interests tend towards topics avoided in polite conversation: death, God, and Italy. Though not enough about Italy. I can never write enough about Italy.…