Editing as Performance Art

"I'm just saying I am here for the impulse to say yeah let me take this kind of under studied book that is pretty important from 150 years ago and just kind of put some stank on it," he says. "It's a thing that hit me weird it's a thing I've never ever run into in any other bookYeah no other books editor has just been like a idiot you can lie to you real fast don't worry about it I think people buy an addition of a book like this because they want somebody smart to like walk them through it but then when didn't she walk you through it."