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Niko Pfund, OUP’s academic and trade publisher, answers a frequent question – how do you decide what to publish, and what not to publish? Oxford has a rigorous review process through which we vet all prospective publications. If you e-mail a proposal to an OUP editor, here’s what happens…
Ben’s Place of the Week is Lyons, Kansas.
David Perlmutter looks at the influence of blogs.
Today we have the honor of having Niko Pfund, publisher-extraordinaire, answer some questions he is often asked. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see part two of this series. Having worked at both a midsized press (NYU) and the world’s largest university press (OUP), and with experience as both an editor and a manager, […]
Oxford University Press is beaming with joy at the news that Daniel Walker Howe has won the Pulitzer Prize in history for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. Read Howe’s OUPblog post here. Read Howe’s Powell’s post here. More to come after we finish celebrating.
Earlier today we posted an excerpt form Chasing The High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person’s Experience With Substance Abuse by Kyle Keegan and Howard B. Moss, M.D. In the excerpt below the authors answer some tough questions about living with substance abuse in your past. Should I tell everyone about my problems with […]
An excerpt from Chasing The High.
Happy Friday to all! It’s been a long week, rain, sunshine, rain again but hopefully the sun will return sometime soon and stick around. Below are some links to keep you busy on this dreary Friday. What is inaccurate about the HBO John Adams series? Hemingway had March Madness? Billy Bragg on royalties. Isabel Allende […]
Paul Hockenos looks at the criticism of the 1968 German student movement.
Ammon Shea shares some advice for beginning dictionary readers.
William Safire blogs about blogs.
Mark Peters looks at synonyms for “bullshit”.
Welcome to podictionary. My name is Charles Hodgson For almost three years now I’ve been producing podictionary – the podcast for word lovers and I’m very pleased to now be able to bring a weekly episode to the OUPblog. Every Thursday I’ll be posting a word-of-the-day podcast here. There are two main differences between podictionary […]
Baroness Mary Warnock and Elisabeth Macdonald respond to a recent UK poll that came out in favour of assisted dying and euthanasia.
Be sure to read the blog tomorrow because we are going to have a bonanza of language posts! I’m so excited I’m going to pull an Ammon Shea and stay up all night reading my Shorter OED.
This story might be titled “Some Words Have a Reputation to Live Up To,” (Part Two). While tracing the convoluted history of ‘charade’, I promised to devote some space to ‘charlatan’. The element ‘char-‘ unites them, and in scholarly works they have frequently been mentioned in one breath.