I am very excited that two books I worked on are coming out in August 2025. From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became...

In January I debuted a new workshop that is based on my years of working in higher education, in both faculty development and academic...

Just before Christmas in 1987, Geraldo Rivera outed me on national television. I wrote about it, and the damage done to families by being...

What keeps writers from writing? Let’s be more specific: what keeps me from writing? I asked some scholars about current challenges that...

I recently gave a version of my Writing for Publication workshop to a group of college professors. This workshop focuses on how to...

I was happy to present my workshop Writing for Publication last week at Guttman Community College in New York City. My work with scholars...

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...

This month, I have the honor of speaking after a performance of a new stage adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel, A Single Man....

It’s really here. The first edition of Isherwood on Writing was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008. It was always...

I recently registered a business in New York, called “Berg Connection.” I am now an official sole proprietorship doing business in the...

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

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...

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

Writers and scholars are always looking for ways to promote their work, often by discussing their subjects in non-academic places. My...

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...

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...