Ben Platt is editorial director at Public Books. Books, proposals, and articles Ben has edited have been published by Penguin Press, Picador, Melville House, Basic Books, St. Martin’s Press, SFMOMA, Bold Type Books, JSTOR Daily, New_ Public, Books & Ideas, Columbia University Press, Sydney Review of Books, Stanford University Press, Belknap Press, and Princeton University Press. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ben has spoken about editing and publishing to undergraduate and graduate students at New York University, University of British Columbia, University of Connecticut, Object Lessons Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Harvard University. 

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