Editing the editor

Katha Pollitt wrote about the role editors play in keeping women out of journalism. I am fooling around with using editor as a metaphor for the writing teacher and I try to be critical of the metaphor as I write. At some point, the editor thing may just fall apart. The dissertation keeps doing that. I work on something for weeks and then I feel dissatisfied. But John Green and many other writers seem to embrace the revision work they do with editors, so it may be useful in the end. Rosalyn recommends Green's new book, Looking for Alaska.