from now on, we will have to Haberles
I think it's pretty accomplished for a cat, he should be proud
You can learn a lot about someone by what they post about Habermas
Yes. It makes you have lots of feelings about your own writing that you may or may not want to contemplate.
So, no. I can't recommend it as a career path.
We used to toss wadded up pieces of the draft around the house for the cat to chase, we called it [redacted]ball
I obtained this sweet gig by responding to a personals ad in the NYRB.
I kept meaning to quit but I was recently out of grad school, his checks kept clearing, and, obviously, no one was ever going to publish any version of it and he had money to burn, so no harm no foul
Once for being insufficiently passionate in drafting a Trotskyite manifesto
It was to have 300 plus chapters, "like the Bible"
Ghostwriting sounds fun and lucrative until you try it. Tried it twice, got fired both times, a blessing in both cases
Twelfth is one of those words that just cannot possibly be spelled like that
Really and truly: working with smart people writing transformative books is the best thing ever. Congrats to Emilie Connolly on her Bancroft, it is well deserved! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Vested Interests is an AMAZING BOOK, go get it!
This appears to be real?
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
1/
🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
The sounds of jazz flute in Clark Park is the truest sign of spring 😍
Ah well who needs the global economy
Thanks for sharing this--I've been struggling with how to extract info on AI from my authors, and incorporating the question into intake seems like the most neutral approach.
This whole thread is appalling. And then there's this part
What authors and publishers pay editors for in a developmental edit is literally their time and expert analysis. If a developmental editor is charging you money to offload that work onto an LLM, you are quite actually being scammed.
Deleted what should have been an inside thought that started to get traction. But still. I hate it.
Where is the books mural?
So many geese today! Especially at 8 am.
it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
Stabby
Love this piece by @vauhinivara.bsky.social. Every time I think some derogatory thought about Patterson, I have to remind myself that he is one of the few super rich authors actually giving back to the literary community in meaningful ways. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if it’s warranted.
oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job
And this was a strategy used by Israel against Gazans first
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
Icing on the cake is that the religion in question is Presbyterianism
