Sounds like fun...

An extremely interesting description of life as an editor in the publishing industry. My favorite part:

Being a book editor is often, on balance, a rum game. The arts -- high and low --have a way of moving forward, backward, or to the side which leaves their servants perpetually scrambling to catch up with and make sense of their direction and their very nature.  Profit, when it gets into bed with them, doesn't like the unpredictability of the arts. It tries to rationalize them and make them financially reliable. Can't be done.  But our brains need to narrativize events in retrospect, so, particularly now, with everything and its brother "monetized,"  publishers and editors come up with explanations and stories that help them believe that they knew what they were doing.