Archives for Publish or Perish

The publisher of the distinguished Arden Shakespeare series has outraged many Shakespearians with its decision to terminate the contract of Patricia Parker, a senior scholar who has been working on a new Arden edition of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for more than a decade. Why did Cengage, Arden’s publisher, pull the plug on Parker’s contract?… Continue reading »

My kids know that I write articles and that I have an editor. Sometimes they even think it’s cool. Lately my son, who’s 4, has been scribbling on pieces of paper and saying that he has to finish his article by Christmas. (I like the way he pushes deadlines.) Of course, editing doesn’t always go… Continue reading »

One for the good guys: My friend Jim Hynes has found a publisher for his new novel, Next. Little, Brown is the house that had the good sense to snap up the book. Jim sez: And Little, Brown, of course, is a legendary American publishing house, which, at one of the scale, published Emily Dickinson,… Continue reading »

I’ve got two new stories up at the Chronicle. The first is a look at “Literary Geospaces.” I write about two very cool digital projects: the Map of Early Modern London, run by Janelle Jenstad, an assitant professor of English at the University of Victoria, and Matthew L. Jockers’s Google Earth visualization of the development… Continue reading »

As some of you know, I’ve been looking for an agent to represent a little thing I wrote for my kids. It’s called “Henry and the Hungry Hamper,” and it’s about a boy who does battle with his laundry hamper at bath time. Oh, and it rhymes. It’s 600 words long. Reax so far: Good:… Continue reading »