Episode 20: Book Editing

The Watchung Booksellers Podcast

In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, editors Sarah McGrath and Lee Boudreaux walk us through the art of book editing.
Lee Boudreaux is an executive editor at Doubleday, specializing in fiction. She edited James by Percival Everett and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, and also has the great pleasure of working with such writers as Claire Lombardo, Kate Atkinson, and Margaret Atwood.

Sarah McGrath is Editor-in-Chief of Riverhead Books where she works with many award-winning writers, among them Liz Moore (God of the Woods) and Miranda July (All Fours), who both had bestselling new books in stores this summer, and Rumaan Alam whose new novel Entitlement comes out later this month. She and her family have lived in nearby Glen Ridge for over a decade.

Books:
A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here.

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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Silver Stream Studio in Montclair, NJ.

The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell and Bree Testa. Special thanks to Timmy Kellenyi and Derek Mattheiss.

Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica.

Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff.

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