In Fact and Fiction: The Editorial Process and the Art of Writing
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The New Yorker editor Deborah Treisman and writers Aleksandar Hemon and Hilton Als join forces for a conversation about the art of writing and the editorial process. Treisman, The New Yorker's youngest fiction editor ever, has also worked for The New York Review of Books and Harper's. Hemon is author of The Lazarus Project, which was a National Book Award and National Critics Circle Award finalist. Als, who is currently serving as Newhouse Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College, has worked as a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1994.
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