Article: Executive Editor of Harvard University Press Discusses Academic Publishing.

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Jan. 12--WHEN THE Modern Language Association convened for its annual meeting in New York late last month, a bitter, unnamed professor of literature remarked to the New York Observer that "the academic-press editors are gods." In today's extreme publish-or-perish climate in the humanities, it seems, they alone can decide the fates of young professors seeking tenure. Cited among the most puissant of these ink-stained deities was Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press. Ideas reached the reluctant demiurge at his office in Cambridge, Mass.

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