• “My unparalleled editor, Meghan Houser, provided constant guidance, cheerleading, insight, and patience, and I am forever grateful to her for taking a chance on this project and for breathing life into it.”

    —Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

  • “My spectacularly talented, incisive, and funny editor, Meghan Houser: you made this manuscript smarter, more lucid, and all-around better.”

    —Mary Childs, author of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All

  • “RUSH had only one editor—and that is dynamo Meghan Houser, who worked astonishingly hard to provide in-depth and challenging editing, the kind we are told editors don’t do anymore. They do. She does.”

    —Stephen Fried, author of Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor who Became a Founding Father

  • “A great deal of time has been wasted speculating on the possibility that an infinite number of chimpanzees banging away indefinitely on an infinite number of typewriters (it’s an old idea) would eventually come up with the works of Shakespeare. To which I can only add: if they had Meghan Houser as an editor, their chances would be greatly enhanced. Her keen eye for organization often substituted clarity for confusion. To those who remain confused by one part or another of my book I can only explain that I did not always accept Meghan’s recommendations. She is a wonderful editor who never faltered in the face of difficult deadlines and an occasionally petulant author.”

    —Ted Koppel, author of Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

  • “My amazing editor, Meghan Houser, you are a magician with the pen—your intellect and empathy made the arduous rewrites manageable.”

    —Michael Tubbs, author of The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home

  • “Meghan Houser is brilliant. She helped a great deal both with the overall conceptualization of the book and with improving pretty much every line in it.”

    —Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists

  • “I owe a debt of gratitude and thanks to Meghan Houser. Meghan’s sharp eye for detail and big picture view of what this book could be shaped a lumpy first draft into what you can now hold in your hands.”

    —Nick Smith, author of Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers

  • “The marvelous Meghan Houser was a superb editor and an insightful, hardworking collaborator.”

    —Gary Krist, author of The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

  • “Meghan, when we first met on Zoom and they told me, ‘She’s going to be your best friend over the next few months,’ I was like, ‘Yeah, right.’ Well, yeah, they were right. You responded to questions at all hours, challenged my thoughts for the better. You made one of the scariest tasks, writing a book, pretty manageable.”

    —Emmanuel Acho, author of Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

  • “The invaluable advice I received from Meghan Houser gave me a clear sense of direction as I began to revise.”

    —Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

  • “Without Meghan Houser’s insight this would have been a much different, and I strongly suspect much lesser, book.”

    —Matt Alt, author of Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World

  • “Meghan Houser whipped my meandering, too-long manuscript into lean, mean fighting shape. She was basically like Martin, Tinsley Mortimer’s boxing coach on RHONY, except she probably wouldn’t put up with Tinz for very long.”

    —Brian Moylan, author of The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives