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Roundtable on How NOT To Write Your Second Book: Timothy Mennel on Publishing
Continuing our roundtable "How NOT To Write Your Second Book," Timothy Mennel, the executive editor of University of Chicago Press, looks at how the second book differs from the first.
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Roundtable on How NOT To Write Your Second Book: Tamara Thornton on Choosing...
We are pleased to have yet another excellent contribution to our “How NOT To Write Your Second Book” Roundtable. Tamara Plakins Thornton is professor of history at the State University of New York,...
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How not to write your first book
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann talks about the things she wishes she'd known before turning the dissertation into a book
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Should you write your dissertation as a book?
Impostor syndrome comes in many forms in academia, and this is how it comes for me: I shouldn’t be a doctor, because I never wrote a dissertation. I just wrote a book. It’s not that I regret the...
View ArticleInspiration Roundtable: Haunting Sources
Guest poster Lindsay O'Neill contributes to our roundtable on the inspiration behind research projects.
View ArticleWonder and Historical Knowledge: Reflections from the Omohundro Institute...
Scholars of early America often come to the profession because of the wonder of experiencing the past. But we rarely write that way. Lindsay Chervinsky explores how we can bring more of the passion we...
View ArticleGuest Post: Writing Alongside Your Students
Guest poster Mairin Odle describes writing alongside her students
View ArticleGuest Post: Elizabeth Seton and Me: Or, How I Almost Wrote a Book about a...
Today at The Junto, Catherine O'Donnell discusses the challenges of writing a book about an American saint
View ArticleFlashing Before My Eyes
In today’s post, Joseph Adelman reflects on the end of the process of working on a book, the memories it stirs, and letting go of the things that can no longer be changed.
View ArticleKeep Calm and R&R
It’s August, and for academics hoping to get some writing done this summer, it’s go time. In conversations with my writing group colleagues, who come from fields as diverse as information sciences,...
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