Gal Beckerman
@galbeckerman
Senior editor for books at @TheAtlantic, formerly @nytimesbooks, and author, most recently, of "The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas."
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happy 2024, everyone! if you're looking for a dose of inspiration to start fresh, Chelsea Leu has a list of books that may actually help: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
In this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing , I share my weakness for the acknowledgment sections of books...and offer a modest proposal for recognizing all the unseen people who make books possible.
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'The prospect that, at any of those hearings, the work they’d done to better themselves might be recognized and rewarded also served as a powerful incentive toward self-actualization.'
Neil Gross on Ben Austen's 'Correction'
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What if books had credits just like movies and TV? In this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing , Gal Beckerman makes the case: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
'The Case for a Credits Section in Books,' Gal Beckerman in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
American forests might seem to be burning more frequently than ever. But a new book shows that the U.S. is actually operating at a severe fire deficit, writes Ben Goldfarb: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
“Putting out fires contributes to the creation of even bigger blazes.”
For The Atlantic, I reviewed IGNITION, the journalist M.R. O'Connor's new book on the fire paradox and the importance of prescribed burns.
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'One could be forgiven for assuming that forests are burning more frequently than ever. In fact, the opposite is true: The United States...is operating at a fire deficit.'
Ben Goldfarb on M.R. O'Connor's new book.
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American forests might seem to be burning more frequently than ever. But a new book shows that the U.S. is actually operating at a severe fire deficit, writes Ben Goldfarb: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
There are so many people behind the making of a single book and I loved this piece in The Atlantic exploring why we should be more transparent on how. conglomeration has completely changed literature. 📚
'Would it really be so difficult to have a credits page that acknowledges the contributions of the folks responsible for layout, marketing, and proofreading?'
Hard questions about publishing in Josh Lambert's review of Dan Sinykin's 'Big Fiction.'
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For this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing , I wrote about one of my favorite 2023 novels and how it broke through my antipathy to nature writing.
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