Editing is in the air lately. In The Great American Novel Will Not Be Substacked, Valerie Stivers asks us to face the harsh truth that the renegade novels we see published on Substack need more editing. Last week,
published a piece by Caleb Caudell called Kill the Editor, which feels like a response to Stivers (although it never mentions her). Just yes…© 2025 Emmalea Russo
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