24 Episodes

  1. Leo Carey: "What's Not There"

    Published: 6/17/2025
  2. Yahdon Israel: "Faustian Bargains"

    Published: 6/3/2025
  3. Ben Calhoun: "Close Listening"

    Published: 5/20/2025
  4. Sasha Weiss: "Mischief in the Pages"

    Published: 5/6/2025
  5. Radhika Jones: "Past the Illusion"

    Published: 4/22/2025
  6. Zakiya Dalilah Harris: "Satire and Sensitivity"

    Published: 4/8/2025
  7. Fergus McIntosh: "One Wonders"

    Published: 3/25/2025
  8. Jackson Howard: "Risk It All"

    Published: 3/11/2025
  9. Meghan O'Rourke: "The Glitzy Bits"

    Published: 2/25/2025
  10. Kaitlyn Greenidge: "Making Artifacts"

    Published: 2/11/2025
  11. Emily Greenhouse: "Your Whole Self"

    Published: 1/28/2025
  12. The Lit Hub Podcast: Nov 29, 2024

    Published: 11/29/2024
  13. Christine Smallwood: "Why Do You Do It This Way?"

    Published: 7/9/2024
  14. Carina del Valle Schorske: "The Tuning Fork in the Ear"

    Published: 6/25/2024
  15. Maggie Doherty: "The Problem of Other Minds"

    Published: 6/11/2024
  16. Doreen St. Félix: "Documents of Mundanity"

    Published: 5/28/2024
  17. Lauren Michele Jackson: "Why Not Memes?"

    Published: 5/14/2024
  18. Jo Livingstone: "Into the Cave"

    Published: 4/9/2024
  19. Moira Donegan: "A Gender Emergency"

    Published: 3/26/2024
  20. Anahid Nersessian: "The Channeler"

    Published: 3/12/2024

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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? Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by Leanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf The Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, and Lit Hub.