Lennard J. Davis

Tutoy-ing: Roland Barthes et Moi Visit the post for more.

My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.

academic.oup.com/alh/article/... John Marsh's ALH review of my book POOR THINGS ends "After reading Poor Things...academics may never see works about the poor the same."

Great review by @mattbrim.bsky.social of my book POOR THINGS in the Journal of Working Class Studies.

Forty-Six Words That Changed Disability History By Lennard J. Davis | Trying to find a moment when the ADA began is like trying to find the source of the Nile or the Amazon. So many tributaries flow into the making of the ADA that you cannot say if...

Section 504 in the Rehabilitation Act in 1972 was as short as a tweet, but it belied the volumes of language it would generate in the coming years of disability history. #DisabilityPrideMonth #ADA35 @lendavis.bsky.social

Go Ask Your Father - This American Life Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father.

This American Life is rebroadcasting my segment this weekend for Father’s Day It starts about 5 minutes into the episode. It's about using DNA testing to find out if my father was my biological father.

Contacted them. They get their books from distributors. They will check which distributor and will ban the book for sale from their list.

I contacted them. They said they get it from a distributor. I asked them to let me know who the distributor is. Waiting to find out. They said they will blacklist the book on their list and won't sell it.

Looks like someone got the page proofs illegally. Yes, it was typeset.

Agreed.

When I get to the bottom of what happened I will let you know. In the meantime, could you please indicate to your followers the actual state of things? There certainly was no intention on my part or Rebecca's to have this work surface. Quite the opposite.

Whether there is a pirated edition that someone got published (and somehow got the page proofs?) is up for speculation. My editor says he will get the Amazon and Barnes and Noble listing taken down. But I want you to know this has nothing to do with me or Rebecca.

Sami, I don't know what is going on.Your post was the first I have heard about this bootleg edition. I am in touch with Routledge to find out what happened. I had zero knowledge of this and my editor at Routledge as well as Rebecca have no knowledge.

Thank you. This is both shocking and horrible. For many reasons. I'm in communication with Routledge right now.

I know. Don't buy it!

And the articles as well?

Hi Chloe,
This is news to me (and to my editor at Routledge.) I'm shocked to find this out. I assume that this is somehow a pirated edition. Does it include the section on Neurodiversity? Part VIII?

Can you show me the contents of the book, because neither I nor Routledge have put this book out. Thank you.

AI Is Driving a New Surge of Sham “Books” on Amazon - The Authors Guild As we feared—and warned—the growing access to AI is driving a new surge of low-quality sham “books” on Amazon. In the last few weeks, we have seen hundreds of examples of how bad actors are using gene...

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Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $24,000 to a fraudulent seller

www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...

A fake version of the Disability Studies Reader 6th edition has been put up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The 6th edition was never published. Routledge is working to get the listing taken down. Please do not order it because this is a scam. All the previous editions 1st through 5th are genuine.

AI Gone Wild: Fake Books Sold on Amazon Generative AI has been a wildly innovative tool, but like all tools, it's something used nefariously. Case in point: fake books.

Or this? www.boldbusiness.com/digital/ai-g....

Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $24,000 to a fraudulent seller

Could be this? www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...

Hi Sami
I can't explain this photo, except to say that the picture doesn't show a book, only a single page. If there is a book out there, it wasn't published by Routledge. I would have a copy and so would my editor.

I notified the editor at Routledge who will get the Amazon and Barnes and Noble listings taken down. I would appreciate it if you could let your followers know this. Thank you.

That is not the case. Believe me, I would know.

Sorry, it doesn't exist. Amazon posted this a long time ago, but we never published the 6th edition. Thank you for letting me know. I've informed Routledge who should be able to get Amazon to remove the listing.

That listing was put up before the publication of the DSR6 and it was never taken down. Check the Routledge website.

Amazon listed it before it was supposed to be published. They never removed the listing.

Again. The DSR6 was never published. Amazon for some reason has it listed, but it was never published. Check Routlege's website.