Blog | jamesjberg

A little help here...?

Finding the right balance among faculty roles is difficult, particularly at colleges and universities that prioritize teaching. As a...

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...

What is developmental editing?

Publishing is a mystery to many writers, academic writers in particular. Scholars, researchers, academics, whatever you want to call...

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...

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...

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...