 From 1984-86 he served as editor-in-chief of Washington Square Press, where he published Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Graham Greene, J.G.Ballard, and Graham Swift in paperback.In 1986 he moved to Macmillan, where he launched the Collier Fiction series, the "Best American Poetry" annual, and published the early work of Jim Crace, John Banville, William T. Vollmann, Emmanuel Carrère, and Annie Proulx, who credited Glusman with encouraging her to write novels.