Please join us for a live recording of the final episode of The Art of Editing series, a podcast from Lithub and The New York Review of Books. Merve Emre, the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker, will be in conversation with Yahdon Israel.
Yahdon Israel is a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, where he acquires both fiction and nonfiction. In addition he teaches creative writing at CUNY and the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Guernica, LitHub, and other outlets. He was Editorial Director of Northside Media and Editor-in-Chief of Brooklyn Magazine. He also served as Content and Social Media Director for MakersFinders, Inc.
This event is Co-hosted by The Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and New York University's Center for the Humanities. If you have any questions please reach out to Oliver Egger at oegger@wesleyan.edu.