June 17, 2008

Read Them Now

By RACHEL TOOR

To those of you with other people's manuscripts sitting on your desk, get to them soon or give them back

During the dozen years I worked in scholarly publishing, I wrote scads of in-house manuscript reports, commissioned hundreds of outside readers, and read thousands of published book reviews. Although I would have denied it at the time, I never appreciated how hard it was to write those reviews.

Now I'm on the other side of the desk. A while back, I was asked by an old

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