All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham
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2 days ago
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svara
5 hours ago
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Someone here recommended Lapham's podcast, The World in Time, the last time he came up.

It's amazing! Truly someone out of a different age.

https://pca.st/podcast/daa59d90-feeb-0134-ec79-4114446340cb

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skadamou
6 hours ago
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PostOnce
1 hour ago
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This is a total tangent, but I am amazed by the image at the top of the article. I did not know until today that theatrical sets were ever first designed as models or dioramas, and that one is especially beautiful. I have now embarked on a set design model box research expedition.
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tclancy
37 minutes ago
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Step softly so you don’t break any little people.
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Aachen
5 hours ago
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The title is explained way down:

> Lewis was fond of saying that “all good editors are pirates”—they steal from everyone

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yeahwhatever10
3 hours ago
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A contradictory quote for publishers and editors in the AI era.
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ysofunny
18 minutes ago
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culture has always been all about imitating and copying each other unapologetically

the whole "marketplace of ideas" which has led us into "let us charge money for ideas" is as dumb as bricks

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CamperBob2
2 hours ago
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And it doesn't even make sense, as it's the artist or the author, not the editor, who is supposed to "Steal from the best, forget the rest."
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