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All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham

All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham

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·June 29, 2025
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svara

Someone here recommended Lapham's podcast, The World in Time, the last time he came up.

It's amazing! Truly someone out of a different age.

https://pca.st/podcast/daa59d90-feeb-0134-ec79-4114446340cb

skadamou

Here are a few of Lewis Lapham's obituaries

Harpers: https://harpers.org/2024/07/remembering-lewis-lapham/ Lapham's Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1... LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/

Aachen

The title is explained way down:

> Lewis was fond of saying that “all good editors are pirates”—they steal from everyone

yeahwhatever10

A contradictory quote for publishers and editors in the AI era.

CamperBob2

And it doesn't even make sense, as it's the artist or the author, not the editor, who is supposed to "Steal from the best, forget the rest."