Gerald Howard retired from Doubleday as an executive editor and vice-president at the end of 2020. Authors he has worked with include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Debbie Applegate, Mark Greif , Pat Barker. Bill Bryson and Hanya Yanigihara. His essays and reviews have appeared in Bookforum, the New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar, n+1, Slate and The Nation. His book The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature will be published by Penguin Press in November 2025.