Erin Wicks ’11 wanted so badly to be a book editor that she willingly took a few steps down the professional ladder to get that opportunity. She had been hired as an e-book rights assistant at ...

Rust Hills, Esquire’s longtime fiction editor, once had an ambitious and provocative idea: capture the most influential people in writing and publishing in a single graphic. The July 1963 issue of ...

When it comes to the history of American literature, there are few, if any bigger names than Esquire magazine. Under the off-and-on fiction editorship of legendary editor Rust Hills from the ’50s to ...

Literary journals pride themselves on publishing excellent fiction, but the definition of excellence varies from editor to editor. By inviting 25 editors to contribute stories they published and to ...

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a satire of the publishing world and modern race relations, stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, an English professor and novelist frustrated by what ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In the wake of disaster in ...

C. Michael Curtis, who as fiction editor for the Atlantic mined 12,000 short-story submissions a year in search of undiscovered voices, turning up Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie and Louise Erdrich ...