I have about 48 hours back at home before I leave to travel again and the elation I have felt being reunited with all of my books while also total paralysis about what to pick up while I’m home is a weird and frustrating feeling.
Things I am incredibly excited about? This galley of the latest Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. I cannot wait to reread this in hard copy form, but I’ll have to because it’s at home and I’m in Whistler.
Just finished JAWBONE by Monica Ojeda and translated by Sarah Broom. 10/10, loved it. Would not recommend if you’re squeamish because it is graphic horror. If you’re a little familiar with psychoanalysis it’s less disturbing.
“While literature and the imagination are deemed superfluous (especially) in satisfied societies, the first thing a dictatorship does is to censor writing, burn books, and exile, imprison, or murder writers.” From Carlos Fuentes Forward to The Underdogs
University of Michigan Press is hiring an editorial assistant. Please help me spread the word—and let me know if you have any questions.
OU Press has been around for more than 90 years, and we are working to renew and refresh our editorial program. We have a position open if you want to be a part of that!
Anyone else listening to the GW conference on Ethics in Publishing? I’m attending virtually 🤗
House on Mango Street remains meh for me. I get that the prose is beautiful and poetic. Intellectually I can have answers on form, but it just doesn’t speak to my soul the way it does a lot of people.