"As a writer and a literary agent for twenty-seven years, I’ve worked with dozens of editors at the Big Five publishing houses and elsewhere. There’s no one better than Geoff, and I know from personal experience: he was my editor on my first two books with Little, Brown. He made them both immeasurably better, in both a structural and a line-editing sense. If I could choose one editor to improve my book, it would be Geoff Shandler."

MALCOLM GLADWELL, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR; STAFF WRITER AT THE NEW YORKER

"Geoff and I worked together on a number of my books while he was at Little, Brown. Upon reflection, maybe it wasn't a coincidence that they were my most successful books!"

"Geoff Shandler is a genius at what he does. We worked in perfect harmony, though he was heavy with that damned red pencil. But I would trust Geoff with every book I write. He will always be my friend and my secret go-to guy."

BOB SPITZ, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

"My Beatles biography would have been sunk without Geoff Shandler’s incredible editing job. He took a beast of a manuscript, at 2,800 unpublishable pages, and with his exacting eye and impeccable sense of editing, whittled it into an award-winning, sleek 950 pages without asking me to rewrite a word. I am indebted to his expertise. He’s my go-to choice for editor extraordinaire."

WENDY PEARLMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

"I approached Geoff with two draft chapters of a book of narrative nonfiction that incorporated excerpts of interviews that I had done with Syrian refugees. Geoff peered through the draft to see the soul of a project that both my agent and I missed. He envisioned a book — in everything from style to page layout — that made the most of what I had spent years gathering, guided me to the very best of which I was capable as a writer, and helped me produce the proudest achievement of my career to date."

DAVID W. BROWN, WRITER FOR THE ATLANTIC, NEW YORKER AND NEW YORK TIMES

"Geoff Shandler is the greatest editor I have ever worked with, and I dare say the best editor I ever will work with. His ability to unpack a manuscript, separate it somehow into its constituent atoms, and rebuild it as something truly magnificent is one of the most mystifying and magical experiences I've ever encountered in my professional career. If, as it has been said, all art aspires to the condition of music, then Geoff Shandler is Mozart."

GARRETT M. GRAFF, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

"Geoff is magnificent at every stage of the editing process, from spotting ideas to massaging finished prose—a real-life example of the kind of editor you usually read about in wistful stories of publishing's best days gone by. I felt incredibly lucky to have him as a partner in my book and learned a tremendous amount from his advice, suggestions, and examples; writing for Geoff is the equivalent of the greatest MFA degree you could ever earn."

MARY GABRIEL, FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD; FINALIST, PULITZER PRIZE; FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

"Geoff Shandler is one of the best editors I have had the pleasure to work with during twenty-five years as an international journalist and author of four published books. Geoff is not just expert at the mechanics of editing, his natural intellectual curiosity means he engages deeply with an author, beyond the mere words on the page, until the work becomes a true collaboration. He knew my book so well that he could see what I—after seven years of research—did not. I grew to trust his instincts and deeply value his direction. When Love and Capital became a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Pulitzer Prize, I attributed much of that success to him. I still do."

DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

"The best editor imaginable."

WALLACE J. NICHOLS, PHD, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR; SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR THE BLUE ECONOMY, MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY