Thriving in Academia
In January I debuted a new workshop that is based on my years of working in higher education, in both faculty development and academic...
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Jim Berg
May 28, 20231 min
Geraldo Rivera Outed Me on National Television
Just before Christmas in 1987, Geraldo Rivera outed me on national television. I wrote about it, and the damage done to families by being...
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Jim Berg
Feb 16, 20232 min
Fear of Failure
What keeps writers from writing? Let’s be more specific: what keeps me from writing? I asked some scholars about current challenges that...
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Jim Berg
Feb 1, 20232 min
The Craft of Academic Writing
I recently gave a version of my Writing for Publication workshop to a group of college professors. This workshop focuses on how to...
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Jim Berg
Jan 22, 20231 min
Faculty Writing Workshop
I was happy to present my workshop Writing for Publication last week at Guttman Community College in New York City. My work with scholars...
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Jim Berg
Nov 13, 20221 min
Christopher Isherwood on Writing for the Theater, via LitHub
I'm very pleased to see an excerpt from the new edition of Isherwood on Writing on LitHub. Although Isherwood was better known for his...
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Jim Berg
Oct 15, 20221 min
A Single Man in London
This month, I have the honor of speaking after a performance of a new stage adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel, A Single Man....
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Jim Berg
Oct 10, 20222 min
Cover reveal Isherwood on Writing
It’s really here. The first edition of Isherwood on Writing was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008. It was always...
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Jim Berg
Sep 6, 20222 min
Introducing the Berg Connection
I recently registered a business in New York, called “Berg Connection.” I am now an official sole proprietorship doing business in the...
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Jim Berg
Aug 10, 20223 min
A little help here...?
Finding the right balance among faculty roles is difficult, particularly at colleges and universities that prioritize teaching. As a...
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Jim Berg
Jul 11, 20222 min
Preserving the author's voice
One of the thornier issues in copyediting is how to maintain the author’s voice. It’s important to make sense of the text, and (when...
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Jim Berg
Jun 29, 20222 min
What is developmental editing?
Publishing is a mystery to many writers, academic writers in particular. Scholars, researchers, academics, whatever you want to call...
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Jim Berg
Jun 26, 20221 min
Seven things you didn't know about Christopher Isherwood
Writers and scholars are always looking for ways to promote their work, often by discussing their subjects in non-academic places. My...
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Jim Berg
Jun 14, 20221 min
I don't podcast... but here is my first podcast
I kept telling people, "I don't podcast." I was ambivalent, at best, about them. On the one hand, I thought of them as "just radio." On...
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Jim Berg
Jun 7, 20221 min
How to launch a book in a pandemic
As a scholar, you work for years to get a book into print. That was the case for Isherwood in Transit, which my collaborator, Chris...
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