How Many Nice People Does It Take To Edit 24 Pages A Week?
I couldn't sleep all night! I was tossing and turning, my mind afire, as I wondered: how are there 14 editors at the New York Times Book Review? This is not simple spite! I like the Book Review. Or at least I like it abstractly, not in the "Yay it's Sunday morning, here's the Book Review" kind of way. And yes, there is a hell of a lot of reading involved in it. But I'm pretty sure me and Maud and Lizzie and Mark Greif and a couple interns could get it done by Tuesday and then sort of just chillax on Wednesdays before starting all over again.
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Each of them reads every 14th page.
Or works one day per fortnight.
That looks like my apartment.
The thing is that the New York Times Book Review isn't actually a good book review. It's the frickin New York TImes, they could really TRY to make you say "Yay it's Sunday morning," or at the very least, "Huh I wonder what [critic] has to say about [book]." Instead it's just a bunch of text they put together to go between publishers' advertisements.
How many NY Times editors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
That's not a joke, I'm genuinely curious.
Sorry, that should be change a lightbulb.
Been a long time since I told a joke.
That's not funny at all. We know who you're really talking about.
Union rules require exempt staff only for maintenance work.
I hear the art department has a very good football team.
Once, long ago, editing was considered a separate job from writing, and as many as fourteen of these "editors" would be hired for each Book Review.