by Tweed Editing | Apr 19, 2013 | frivolity
It’s all very happenstance, but a series of events led to UPPERCASE magazine devoting a two-page spread to me and my work with Tweed. UPPERCASE is “a magazine for the creative and curious.” While its focus is not academics, scholarship fits that...
by Tweed Editing | Jan 2, 2013 | frivolity
The best thing about the academy is the academic community. Thanks for being mine. I’m truly delighted that our work together advances your publication goals and your scholarly career. And your research is my greatest source of intellectual challenge and...
by Tweed Editing | Sep 24, 2012 | frivolity
A few chillier days in Portland have made something abundantly clear to me: summer may be over. Part of me doesn’t want to concede that it’s already the traditional time to hit the books, to start new intellectual projects, and to redouble efforts toward...
by Tweed Editing | Sep 3, 2012 | frivolity, WPA: Writing Progress Administration
It’s Labor Day weekend in the United States, and I’m finding that I actually do have time to enjoy the holiday. This is no small achievement. Since you readers are academics, I’m guessing you’re pretty familiar with quasi–free time. Our work is...
by Tweed Editing | Apr 21, 2012 | frivolity
Whatever you have planned for the weekend, make the most of it, writers!
by Tweed Editing | Aug 12, 2011 | frivolity, writing tools
A couple weeks ago, I drove to the Oregon coast with my sweetie, who is a Paul Krugman devotee. (Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton and writes an op-ed column and a blog for the New York Times.) As we wound through the forest,...