Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”
In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics
Welcome to Season Two of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of Editing. This season, in a series of live conversations, Merve Emre asks the smartest and savviest editors how the sausage gets made. What happens behind the scenes at a magazine? How does an idea become a book? And how do you work with those strange and difficult creatures we call writers?
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From the episode:
For a full transcript, head over to the New York Review of Books.
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Fergus McIntosh is the head research editor at The New Yorker and runs the magazine’s fact-checking department.
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