Matt Weiland, who served for two years as deputy editor of the Paris Review, will step down today to return to book publishing, Publishers Weekly reported. Weiland will assume the position of senior editor at HarperCollins imprint Ecco on November 10. The move comes on the heels of an announcement that Dan Chiasson has succeeded Charles Simic as a poetry editor at the venerable journal, which is published in New York City.
Prior to his job at the Paris Review, Weiland worked as an editor at Granta in London and at the nonprofit publisher New Press. He also worked with Thomas Frank on the Baffler, a journal of cultural and political criticism. Weiland began working in publishing at Columbia University Press while still an undergraduate.
"I've only ever made it up as I go along," Weiland told the Observer. "I have no real expertise except a good generalist education at Columbia and a fair dollop of curiosity." At Ecco, Weiland will mainly be acquiring history, biography, and memoir.
Just last month Weiland's essay anthology, State by State, which he coedited with Sean Wilsey, was published by Ecco.
