A review of Abram Foley's monograph, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021.
From the review: "Foley’s project asks two profound and linked questions: How do we differentiate editorship as a generative mode of textual practice from authorship, and what are the political horizons of editorship when adequately differentiated? This book makes a brilliant first move toward an answer by turning to practices that can problematize both questions. Those who pursue Foley’s “critical opening” need to make a second move, away from narratives of authorial uniqueness, to instead figure out what is radically common about the collaborative practice of editorship and publishing disorder."
