[HN Gopher] All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. ...
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All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham
Author : Caiero
Score : 45 points
Date : 2025-06-29 15:39 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
| skadamou wrote:
| Here are a few of Lewis Lapham's obituaries
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| Harpers: https://harpers.org/2024/07/remembering-lewis-lapham/
| Lapham's Quarterly:
| https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1...
| LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-
| lapham/
| svara wrote:
| Someone here recommended Lapham's podcast, The World in Time, the
| last time he came up.
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| It's amazing! Truly someone out of a different age.
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| https://pca.st/podcast/daa59d90-feeb-0134-ec79-4114446340cb
| Aachen wrote:
| The title is explained way down:
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| > Lewis was fond of saying that "all good editors are pirates"--
| they steal from everyone
| yeahwhatever10 wrote:
| A contradictory quote for publishers and editors in the AI era.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| 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."
| PostOnce wrote:
| 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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