Overview
I excel in helping writers with their storytelling. I work closely with them on their book’s overall structure and pace, the internal dynamics of each chapter, as well as ensuring that their sentences have texture and precision. I help writers find their best ideas, challenging them to reach their potential but also help them through the tougher periods of writing, especially when they are stuck or feel that they have reached a dead end. Whether they are journalists, academics or independent scholars, I make sure that they express their ideas with clarity, that their research is solid and their sourcing is rigorous and impeccable.
I am an extremely patient editor with a very good sense of humor.
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Work experience
The New Press
Led the editorial team of a nonprofit, social justice book publisher that publishes 35-40 new titles in hardcover a year and is a market leader in books on criminal justice, progressive history, and education. Managed a terrific editorial team of 6-8 people, whose authors, in the last year, have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Enabled my junior editorial colleagues build a diverse list of authors, publishing in areas that have been traditionally redlined by mainstream publishers.
Books I commissioned and edited were chosen as a Best Book of the Year by New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Smithsonian, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Man Booker International Book Prize, Wright Hurston Legacy Prize, Aspen Words Literary Prize, Albertine Prize, French Heritage Society Book Prize, Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, Mountbatten Maritime Media Award and Pen America Literary Award.
Nation Books
Grew Nation Books to a bestselling and critically acclaimed imprint geared toward serious narrative and investigative non-fiction in hardcover. First as an imprint with Basic Books, then with Public Affairs.
Key titles:
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto (International Bestseller)
Mirrors by Eduardo Galeano (National Bestseller);
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski (New York Times bestseller);
Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill (New York Times bestseller);
The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky (New York Times Notable Book of the Year);
All the President’s Bankers by Nomi Prins;
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi (New York Times bestseller; Winner: National Book Award 2016)
The Longest August by Dilip Hiro
Dreaming War by Gore Vidal (New York Times bestseller);
Love, Poverty and War by Christopher Hitchens;
Iraq in the Eye of the Storm by Dilip Hiro (International Bestseller);
Imaginary Weapons by Sharon Weinberger
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill (New York Times bestseller)
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
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Karlene A.
Sep, 2020
