The Best of Editing: PW Talks with Kate Gavin

Gavino’s A Career in Books (Plume, Aug) follows three friends as they climb the lower rungs of the New York City publishing industry. [...]another part of me was disillusioned with corporate life and wanted to get out as soon as possible, while trying to maintain the love of literature that I went into the industry with. While I do like those fantasy-type shows about N.Y.C. that hand-wave all those questions away, something I wanted to inspect is: how do the girls make a living on editorial assistant salaries, which are notoriously low?