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
- 2 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
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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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