“Robyn Russell is a completely modern woman in every way except for the fact that she is a throwback to another era when there were a few skilled and insightful editors around who were gifted and tough but caring, thorough and utterly reliable in their judgement. She is really everything you could want in an editor: skillful, trenchant, able to see flaws and defects with an eagle eye and equipped to point them out with a grace and diplomacy that even the most behemoth and outsized ego can abide and benefit from. She is, I believe, an editor’s editor. I recommend her in the highest terms.”