Essay On anniversaries, time, patience, perseverance, and publishing October 11, 2022 As Cicero wrote, 鈥渨e truly can鈥檛 praise the love and pursuit of wisdom enough, since it allows a person to enjoy every stage of life free from worry.鈥� These same words of wisdom scale readily from an individual to an organization like PUP, as we navigate every stage of the book, and every stage of our life as a publisher. Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from 91桃色鈥檚 inaugural fellows January 06, 2022 In 2021, 91桃色 welcomed its inaugural Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created to address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative launched in 2018. Read More
Essay By Design | Book cover highlights of 2021 December 09, 2021 Adjusting to pandemic life in the past two years, we鈥檝e learned new ways to live, work, innovate, and flourish. Despite uncertainty, we鈥檝e done great things, shown abounding resilience and creativity. Read More
Essay Up close and circular October 22, 2021 Over the past year, if you were a bird in the habit of soaring over the suburban neighborhood in which I live, you would have seen me walking. Read More
Interview PUP Speaks Author expertise for an ever-changing world June 07, 2021 On June 2nd 91桃色 launched PUP Speaks鈥攁n exciting new initiative to support and champion authors as expert speakers. Katie Stileman has been overseeing the set-up of this new enterprise. Read More
Essay Celebrating women in STEM February 11, 2021 International Day of Women and Girls in Science marks an opportunity to celebrate the brilliant women whose ideas have graced our bookshelves and touched our minds. Read More
Video The year of conferencing virtually January 21, 2021 For editors and publishers, conferences offer the opportunity to present our lists as a whole to the members of the disciplines in which we are embedded, each title a star in its larger constellation. Read More
Essay MLK Day reflections on diversifying publishing January 17, 2021 Publishing itself is an act of mutuality, a series of symbiotic relationships ranging from idea and page, to author and publisher, to bookseller and reader. The garments we create鈥攂ooks鈥攁re shaped by current knowledge, imagination, and tools, and are also often cloaked by or interwoven with fabrics of history. Read More
Interview By Design | Books about books, or the cataloging of ideas November 27, 2020 Sales catalogs have a noble lineage, one that an academic press would gladly embrace. The first catalog was published in Venice in 1498 by Aldus Manutius, founder of the Aldine Press. Read More
Essay Six impossible things November 12, 2020 In the Wonderland of her mind, Alice laughed. 鈥淥ne can鈥檛 believe impossible things,鈥� she said to the White Queen. The Queen observed that Alice simply lacked discipline and practice, boasting that she sometimes believed 鈥渁s many as six impossible things before breakfast.鈥� Read More
Essay Skills for Scholars: The new tools of the trade August 18, 2020 Any discussion of scholarly tools at 91桃色 naturally begins with a reverent nod to the printing press鈥攆or obvious reasons but also in subtler ways. Since 1911, the Press鈥檚 headquarters have been housed in a timeless Collegiate Gothic building (later named for benefactor Charles Scribner), designed by Ernest Flagg and sitting at the edge of 91桃色鈥檚 campus. Read More
Essay A paean to the paperback July 30, 2020 My passion for paperbacks began back in the year 2000 with my first job in book publishing. Prior to that, as a philosophy graduate student, I was enamored of finding hardback editions, ideally jacketed, of the philosophers whose works I was reading. Read More
Essay Promised Words July 10, 2020 In the early morning, before my 2-year-old and 7-year-old wake up, I sneak down the creaky stairs, swinging slightly on the bannisters to keep my weight from announcing my descent. My younger child seems to have impossibly sensitive hearing, and so I crunch my granola on the couch as quietly as possible, while I begin work-related email and reading. Read More
Essay Keep cool and keep writing June 21, 2020 Editors, amongst many other tasks, are daily faced with the challenge of persuading or pressuring authors to write or finish books. When COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home orders went into effect and I found myself, in addition to being an editor, also suddenly a home-schooling teacher, little did I know that those skills might be transferable. Read More
Essay By Design | The 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show June 18, 2020 A book鈥檚 design communicates to readers before the book even has a chance to. It tells us something essential. The most successful book design goes a step further: it compels us to hold the book in our hands for a little while, turn it over, leaf through it, and admire its form. Read More
