Candice Millard Gives Up Editing Her Book Collection

What books would you recommend to someone who wants to learn more about Egypt and exploration? Fortunately, nearly all of the 19th century explorers wrote books about their travels. Richard Burton alone wrote more than a dozen. For secondary sources, Alan Moorehead’s two-volume classic – “The White Nile” and “The Blue Nile” – is as …

New International Editing from Ecuador to Zimbabwe

jawboneby Monica OjedaTranslated by Sarah Booker264 p. Coffee House. Paper, $16.95. At the heart of Ojeda’s wacky, twisted novel “Jawbone,” the four teenage girls – Ximena, Analía, Natalia and Fiorella – seem to have it all: they’re rich, they’re pampered, and they’re enrolled in an elite girls’ school in Guayaquil. Ecuador. Then why are they …

‘Podcast Movies’? Extends the Feature Film Editing Environment

What do you call a podcast that offers one fictional story in 90 minutes? It may sound like a movie, but frankly, it isn’t. It is reminiscent of mid-century radio theatre, but without radio. “You could call it ‘feature podcasts,’ but it just seems so boring,” said Chris Corcoran, co-founder and chief executive officer of …

New South Editing by Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew

Local 105-year-old “root doctor” Mama Z has documented nearly every lynching in America since 1913 and chastised the prolific academic author of a two-volume study on the biological and philosophical origins of racial violence in America. United States” for his ability to “build 307 pages on a topic like this without an ounce of anger.” …

The Washington Post Adds 41 Editing Jobs As It Expands

The Washington Post is expanding its editorial staff as it moves forward with plans to expand in national and international publications under its new editor-in-chief, Sally Buzbee. Mrs. Buzbee, former editor-in-chief of The Associated Press, took the helm In The Post in June, announced In a memo sent to staff Monday, the creation of 41 …

WHO Experts Ask for Limits in Human Gene Editing Experiments

A committee of experts working with the World Health Organization on Monday urged the world’s nations to set stronger limits on powerful human gene-editing methods. They recommendations made after two years of negotiationaims to thwart pseudoscience experiments with the human genome and ensure that the proper use of gene-editing techniques is beneficial to the wider …