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This year, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, did something unusual.

It brought in many writers from independent presses.

It brought editors and publishers of important, new, and growing presses.

And so today we have a show.

We're talking about the editing and preparation of books with an editor,

Ethan Nisowski, a writer, the Norwegian writer, Per Pedersen, and a publisher, Geyer Berdahl, who is the publisher

for 36 years at October books. You probably know of October books because they

published the Karl Lover Knauskard series as well as Per Patterson's books. When I started doing

the show many years ago, I knew what an editor did.

I'm not sure I do anymore. Ethan Nisowski has been at some of the best positions from which to

report what an editor does. He started at one of the literary houses in New York, Ferris, and Giroux. He moved on to the

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