Because what should happen when I was stuck into that, but then, firstly I got copy edits for the pieces for the web project, which turned out to want various things that, you know, maybe you could have asked for at an earlier stage? Before I'd reshelved all the books I'd consulted...? That sort of thing?
Also, I'm just not sure about wanting ' ( Read more... )

Never mentioned, in my agitato post on Monday, that the day had begun with turning on my phone to discover a text telling me I had a voicemail as of first thing from my sister -
- this in fact turned out to be a blip by her phone and there was no family crisis.
Phew.
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The solution I thought I had attained to logging in to old workplace email ( Read more... )

A bit miffed to have had something come back to me with editorial comments querying why I have not cited more recent historiography of subject?
That would be, pretty much, because all the standard historiography of the subject is there, I can't actually help it that a pioneering work of primary research was published over 40 years ago* and anything ( Read more... )

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie apparently helped two writers who went on to insult her online (her full essay is here).
And what particularly ratchets the whole thing up is that one of these writers apparently, and without asking or even telling her, used her name for publicity purposes for her own book (if her publishers dunnit, she could have said no, ( Read more... )