1.   As an editor at the Library of America, Ms. Bercovitch often undid what earlier editors had done.

2.   But behind the tough words was a feeling that as long as his papers were financially successful, his editors could do what they liked.

3.   Certainly, my editors did.

4.   I love it when a fellow food editor does my work for me.

5.   It appears the editors did so by throwing suggestions into a hat and pulling them out with greased salad tongs.

6.   Many editors do the same, but few describe their role so wittily and well.

7.   Newspaper editors should do a little editing, and stop repeating Pentagonese outside of direct quotations.

8.   Norman Pearlstine, the editor in chief of Time Inc., thought the idea was terrific, and so did the editors of In Style.

9.   Now all this praise is the stuff of what is left of the romance of book publishing, but what exactly does a book editor do?

10.   One of the nice things these editors have done is start each chapter with a brief biography and picture of the photographer.