Allison Van Deventer

OMG!

Every time I read something like this about what AI can supposedly do, I think, “But how do you know it’s right?” Like, wouldn’t you have to redo the work to check it?

(I don’t use AI for anything)

Our 11yo: “Get off my iceberg, you little snacks”

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

I read The Toast (and the comments) so much during early pregnancy with my first kid that I had to take a months-long break because I started to associate it with nausea

Do you feel like good planning is easier said than done? Actually managing to do it well is hard with everything else going on. Planning at a set time, a guided session + community of like-minded academics helps. We've got just that happening 20 March.

One of these drafts just cited another client of mine—I'm delighted by these connections!

I'm actually going to be starting with a scaled-back version of your 5x5 exercise! And I used the exercise in my multi-week book chapter workshop recently, and it was very popular!

What makes this workshop really special is that the faculty member who hired me to lead it is someone whose dissertation I line-edited way back when I was starting out as a freelance editor. Now she has tenure and I'm reading her grad students' drafts!

Today I'm doing something fun: giving a workshop to help a group of MA students move from "zero draft" to "first draft."

We're going to be doing hands-on exercises about structure (map! out! your! sections!) and reverse outlining and argument. I can't wait!

I would never have heard of the legend if it hadn’t been for Denva’s work—definitely not meaning to imply it’s widely known! But maybe it should be!!

Extracting Blackness, from the Middle Ages to Today - Public Books I could not look at the dismembered Ethiopian leg without feeling the weight of a racial history that has never quite let up.

It's such a bizarre and fascinating story! Have you seen Denva Gallant's recent essay about it? www.publicbooks.org/extracting-b...

Text me exchange between Katelyn and me; Looking forward to debriefing the new and improved BCS with you at some point Ahahaha it's pretty different You're going to be like, oh no, what kind of mischief did Allison get up to in my absence No, I know it ROCKS

When the cat’s away on a book fellowship, the mice will play, i.e., overhaul the entire workshop you designed together, oops

@katelynknox.bsky.social

👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!

Will My Acquisitions Editor Be Mad If I Don’t Meet My Deadline? — Goldenrod Editorial | Academic Editing How will acquisitions editors react if you miss your submission deadline? Should you live in fear of this occurrence? This post shares things to keep in mind if you have to push your book deadline bac...

Navigating relationships with acquisitions editors can be scary. But they are also humans who understand that meeting deadlines can be difficult. In this post I explain how it usually goes if your manuscript is late.

#AcademicSky #AcWri #PhDSky

www.goldenrodeditorial.com/blog/missing...

Cover of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms by Michelle N. Huang. The cover shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type. The subtitle appears below in a solid hot pink circle. It is written in white in all lower case. The author’s name appears in the same font in the bottom right corner.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Racial Beings" by Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social, which brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. buff.ly/urUtuP3

Book cover of Robed Representatives: How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts by Taneisha Means Davis

In Robed Representatives, Taneisha Means Davis offers new insights into the lives, identity politics, and actions of Black state court judges.

https://ow.ly/Eoal50YitWi

#ReadUP #BookSky

A table in a sunroom looking out on the ocean on a cloudy day. The table is covered with craft supplies: watercolors, knitting, embroidery.

The same table on a sunny day, with a sketchbook with a different watercolor of the same coastal view.

Dreaming of a lovely vacation last week: 8 adults and 8 kids in a giant house on the frozen Maine coast

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalist Dreams Come True at the Pentagon Do not forget what he stands for

Important reflection from @sarahstankorb.bsky.social, who knows the danger of Doug Wilson & has been trying to warn people for years: sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/doug-wilso...

February break: the Week of Crafts! I broke out the balloon animals kit today and the kids found it incredibly stressful, oops!

Next up: a watercolor session, which is my actual granny’s semi-professional hobby!

You may be interested to know that my recent podcast guest, Emily Doucet, has created a self-paced course to guide you through some of the decisions involved in a draft manuscript.
Find out more about “Architecture of the Draft” and register now: community.londonwriterssalon.com/checkout/aca...

All I have to add to this beautiful essay by @maiagiladi.bsky.social is that there are some astoundingly original and dazzlingly smart books on Latinx literature in the publication pipeline, as I know because I’ve edited/am editing them.

The 10yos have been practicing the basic knitting stitch by chanting “Stab it, strangle it, rip out its guts, throw it off a cliff.”

Kids of this age are METAL

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! 🎉📚

K-POP FANDOM is officially out! 🙌🏻

Available via print and open access!
(Free for viewing online via www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...)

Many thanks to @uofmpress.bsky.social for believing in and supporting this project 💚

Congratulations!!!

This essay is gorgeous.

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?

It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.

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Massachusetts: This is where MACI (the Massachusetts Access to Counsel Initiative) comes in, because it's a centralized intake/referral system with a hotline you can call if you need a lawyer, and NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT or understand why it's important!

miracoalition.org/massachusett...