The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go.
I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers!
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it's a big ask—$7,000. and no one, neither the family or the contractor, can be public. so i guess I would make the fundraiser?
$5,000 of the $7,000 is labor, and would pay his rent for his family of 5 for almost 3 months.
it feels like a good opportunity to help two families.
question:
a family I know paid rent for their immigrant neighbor as he was out of work for during the ICE surge.
he still needs help. he is a contractor. the family needs an urgent bathroom repair and can't afford his rent this month. BUT he has the skills to do it.
could we crowdfund this?
you never know
True story! Never enough ways to read books or read about books! 📚
So glad to start this off w @johngmarks.com insightful book on the history of focusing on Geo Washington and slavery.
I hope it has a happy ending
I've been meaning to say - if you are a historian* looking to write about America 250, especially for a local or regional outlet, please let me know if I can help. There is and will be a lot of room for you to do this work, I think. /1
*as always, construed broadly
Harrow isn't mean.
Ok so she did fill the soup with really good bone broth and then try to animate the bones inside her enemy's stomach, but he had it coming.
We must all ChatGPT (talk about Global Pedocon Theory).
Hey folks I'm at UVA next Monday - in conversation about writing with Alia Habib (an incredible literary agent). Look for "Public Writing, Public Scholarship with Alia Habib and David Perry."
I'm very excited!
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pedocon theory mention #2 of the day for me.
I'll tell you though ... Minnesota residents marching against ICE waiving American flags was pretty good
yeah I'm filled with rage and dread
Was saying the other day that the Artemis launch/landing gave me no joy - probably because the entire space program is so closely associated with Elon Musk in my mind at this point.
And I feel the same way about America 250.
5/ You do not have to be a scholar of the USA to do this. It's more legible to a typical editor if you are, but it just places slightly more weight on slightly different parts of the pitch to overcome this. YOU CAN DO IT!
4/ I will workshop your pitches with you and read your essay drafts. You can email me lollardfish at gmail. I have answered (to my knowledge) every email with questions about this kind of thing for at least a decade, so don't be shy.
3/ Local content is always a good idea, and you can either use the national to explicate the local, or the local as anecdote for the national, or whatever. Lots of possibilities. The more specific to your expertise and what it tells us, the better the pitch.
2/ Outlets will be looking for America 250 content in a variety of spaces and ways, and you might pitch any number of places right now, but local news probably late May/early June is the earliest. The key is to come with an argument, an essay, not just your (amazing!) expertise.
I've been meaning to say - if you are a historian* looking to write about America 250, especially for a local or regional outlet, please let me know if I can help. There is and will be a lot of room for you to do this work, I think. /1
*as always, construed broadly
READ! MORE! BOOKS! hooray!
thank you so much!
Pre-ordered! This looks like a fascinating must-read for those looking to pivot more into public history.
it's extremely weird behavior
A great book.
Writers trying to figure out how to make themselves seen will get a lot out of it.
terrific! I'm always available for questions.
thank you so much
Ordered. Sounds fascinating
pedocon theory manifests in workplace as intern/entry level employee harassment.
Two sea lions swamping a small boat
Only in Puget Sound, Olympia, Washington:
A pair of Stellar Sea Lions, weighing in at at least one ton total weight, commandeer a small sailboat
📸Dane
