So we editors work with people. We work with writers, whom we encourage, challenge, and inspire. We work with publishers, with whom we negotiate over the very souls of our publications. We work with artists and photographers, circulation managers and advertising directors, graphic designers and printers and even copy editors. Above all, we work with readers. We struggle constantly to learn what they are thinking, what they want to know, and what really annoys them. They represent our very existence, and they decide whether we succeed or decay into miserable failure. It is in this maelstrom of people that editors function, and we love it.