Help Me Write!
Who are your favorite travel writers?
London Book Fair 2008: First Impressions
The first part of Kirsty’s London Book Fair diary
Bipolar Nation
Today we are excited to bring you Emily Martin a professor of anthropology at New York University. In her most recent book, Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, (published by Princeton University Press), Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical […]
Friday procrastination: link love – lists, libraries and lives
What Rebecca read this week.
Scoops, Packs, and Clubs
Donald Ritchie shares his National Press club speech.
The Last Word
This is, I’m sad to say, the final installment of “From A to Zimmer” on OUPblog. As of next week I’m departing Oxford University Press for a new position as executive producer of ‘Visual Thesaurus’. I’ve greatly enjoyed the platform afforded me by OUPblog, but I’ve always had a niggling concern.
How Dictionaries Ruined My Scrabble Game
Ammon Shea explains how dictionaries ruined his Scrabble game.
Replica – Podictionary Word of the Day
Charles Hodgson looks at the word “replica.”
Very Short Introductions: Global Catastrophe
Bill McGuire, author of Global Catastrophe: A Very Short Introduction, answers a few questions for OUPblog.
Feel My Pain: The Federal Taxpayers’ Subsidy of Bill Clinton
Edward A. Zelinsky looks at the Clinton’s tax returns.
Still in the Bottleneck, or, Chasing for the First Fiasco
Anatoly examines the origin of the word fiasco.
Inside Oxford: Questions For Niko Pfund
Part Two
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…
Lyons, Kansas
Ben’s Place of the Week is Lyons, Kansas.
Hillary’s Blog Dilemma
David Perlmutter looks at the influence of blogs.
Inside Oxford: Questions for Niko Pfund
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, […]
Howe Wins the Pulitzer Prize
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.