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Brian Gallagher

Manuscripts & magazines

Editing

I edit science and ideas for the general reader — books, newsletters, reported essays. For more than a decade that meant Nautilus. Recently it’s meant helping authors finish their books.

Some books I’ve Edited

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt · 2024 · Penguin Press

“If anyone is looking for a great non-fiction editor, Brian Gallagher is your man. He did brilliant work for me improving the draft of The Anxious Generation, and on Ethical Systems. Highly recommend.”

Jonathan HaidtNYU social psychologist, author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and more.
The book
A finger pointing to Brian Gallagher’s name in the acknowledgments of The Anxious Generation, among those who rose to the level of super-editor
According to Haidt, I “rose to the level of super-editor.”

The Good Lifespan

Why and How We Should Redesign Aging

Raiany Romanni-Klein · Forthcoming · Harvard University Press

“Your edits have been essential to my manuscript’s overall (hopeful) success.”

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Newsletters

  • Nautilus

    I commissioned, edited, and wrote for the magazine and its members’ newsletter. One weekend essay for members: “Does Philosophy Make Us Better Thinkers?”

  • Ethical Systems

    I edited the newsletter for Ethical Systems, the research collaboration Jonathan Haidt founded.

The next manuscript

If you have an article, a newsletter, or a book that you want to develop or polish, write me.