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I am a freelance editor that works entirely for major university presses. I’ve even been brought in when outsourced book…
My colleague and I published a textbook with a major publisher several years ago, and the process was much like…
I recently published a book with a top publisher. My experience was similar to the English professor. However, happily, after…
I’d like to give the highest praise to the LSE Press, who published my book “The Open Society as an…
For anyone interested, I have put a brief essay on Instagram – the uncoolest person on Instagram? – responding to…
“given the actual number of career-worthy jobs (i.e. not per-course or adjunct positions)” The “id est” seems mistaken. Many tenure-track…
Ohio State's Davidoff in The New York Times; the key paragraph:
The problem of law school is one that is ubiquitous to higher education — the current model is inherently expensive but even today, lower-priced alternatives don’t seem to meet the standards or be desired by many students.
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…