A couple of years ago, Ruth Reichl edited a huge cookbook that was built out of the recipe files of Gourmet, the magazine she has edited since stepping down as the restaurant critic of The New York Times in 1999.
Eight years ago, he edited a terrific anthology called "Poe's Children," subtitled "The New Horror," which made a persuasive case for broadening the definition of the genre, or maybe ceasing to think of it as a genre at all.
In fact the next line of the poem had long ago been edited (to read "scarcely interact at all") by the Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann when he borrowed "Cosmic Gall" for a lecture.
A few years ago I edited Wyatt Mason's fascinating New Yorker piece on Mariás, but I didn't have time to read any of the books under review.
Many years ago I edited the war memoirs of my mother, Blanca Rosenberg, To Tell at Last (University of Illinois Press).
Ten years ago, Charles W. Calhoun edited a collection of fourteen synthetic essays that provided a broad analysis of the major political, economic, and social trends of the Gilded Age.
Wikipedia, which has grown into one of the web's most popular destinations since being founded 10 years ago, is edited by a huge number of volunteers who follow an agreed set of rules.
A while ago I edited a book with names like Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Dan Siegel and so many others, focusing particularly on "A Mindful Dialogue" (also available on Kindle), 100percentt of whose proceeds go to Save the Children.
The footage, released a couple of years ago and edited by Eggleston and Robert Gordon, was turned into a rare, black and white, drunken look at the South in the 70s called Stranded in Canton.
Now, after publishing his biography of Fante, "Full of Life" (North Point), two years ago and editing two earlier Fante-related volumes, Mr. Cooper has assembled the definitive anthology.
