As a website, Oddfish is now in its third incarnation: the first, from 1999 to 2004, focused on editorial consultancy; the second, from 2010 to 2020, charted Dr Greenberg’s research and teaching interests; and those posts remain here, for reference. Now, Oddfish returns to the business of providing editorial support to different authors and projects. New material will be added on an ad hoc basis.
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We start 2025 with a series of posts from ‘Editors Talk about Editing’, on the 10th anniversary of publication. The book brought together, for the first time, interviews with top editing practitioners. The first extract is from freelance book editor Constance Hale.
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A story about a stock market deal in 1951 New York turned out to have deep resonances for the people involved, and for those of us looking back now. It also taps into the fascinations of the archive.
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Newly published: a book that draws on a lifetime of work which explores editing as a practice in its own right and proposes a new field of Editing Studies.
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When it comes to PhDs in Creative Writing, it may seem obvious to think about the supervisor as a kind of editor. But this role also has relevance for other research subjects.
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Newly published: a book of interviews which juxtaposes people in different kinds of publishing. The aim is to go beyond familiar ideas about how they differ and understand patterns in their practices and concerns.
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Narrative nonfiction is often be seen as an oddity. But the telling of true stories can offer the most demanding test of the principles of artistic writing, as proposed in Aristotle’s Poetics.
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