November 4, 2005

Ruined for Reading

By RACHEL TOOR

For a dozen years, my job was to read books. Actually, as an editor of serious nonfiction, I didn't actually read books. I read manuscripts, either those I went on to publish or, more frequently, ones I had to reject. Though I would no doubt have been a better editor if I'd reconnoitered widely in the fields I was working in, I didn't tend to read what other presses put out.

The truth is that I was comfortable reading nonfiction only with a pencil in hand. On the occasions when I

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