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The Book Case

Two Editors Who Changed Publishing

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a book that helped us to lift the curtain on the inner workings of the book business. The Editor by Sara B. Franklin tells us the story of Judith Jones, the game changing editor who changed the publishing business at a time where women weren't in the publishing business. Judith helped shape literature and change publishing, and so we pair her with one of our current favorite editors who has just announced her retirement, Beverly Horowitz. Beverly has been in the business for 50 years and has worked with everyone from Judy Blume to E. Lockhart. Join us for a wonderful insiders look at the business that sustains our minds and hearts. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Editor by Sara B. Franklin Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original by Sara B. Franklin The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook: Dishes and Dispatches from the Catskill Mountains by Sara B. Franklin The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones Rabbit, Run by John Updike Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons) by Nan Shepherd We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Happy Thursday to you.

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It is the bookcase.

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I am Kate Gibson, and it is the bookcase with Kate and.

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Charlie Gibson.

0:44.7

So he should be introduced.

0:48.2

I'm her father, which she considers to be one of my minor roles.

0:53.6

This week, we're going to give you sort of a behind-the-scenes look at the book business. This is not only for book nerds,

0:55.9

the phrase that Kate insists on using, I think it's pejorative. I would call all of you who are

1:01.2

listening bookies. And we, as bookies, were very interested in how the book industry works. And this

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week we're going to talk about two people who are editors. People whose names

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you don't know, but I guarantee you that you have had access to the books edited by the two

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