Overview

I've 15 years of experience in the book business. First I worked in editorial at Random House (now Penguin Random House), then at Basic Books and Counterpoint Press, where I got to work on a nice mix of literary fiction and nonfiction. Since venturing out on my own, my editing clients have included college presidents and U.S. Representatives, journalists and CEOs and chefs, plus the occasional friend who's written a children's book. What makes me effective is brutal honesty combined with a genuine, deep-seated desire to help people get their ideas across. You can expect equal parts encouragement and razor-sharp sentence rewrites (when needed).

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The Suitors: A Novel

Ben Ehrenreich

This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can’t distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But whe... read more

This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can’t distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But whe... read more

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Richard P. Feynman

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber--Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track-collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters-offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mind ... read more

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber--Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track-collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters-offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mind ... read more