Category: Digital

  • Editors talk about editing: the back story

    Newly published: a book of interviews which juxtaposes people in different kinds of publishing. The aim is to go beyond familiar ideas about how they differ and understand patterns in their practices and concerns.

  • Fighting on two fronts

    There is a recurring tension between disciplines that are practice-led, and those that see themselves as the champions of ‘theory’. The former often find themselves fighting on two fronts.

  • Publishing and the university

    Every year, at the London Book Fair, there are dozens of fascinating talks. But in 2013 there didn’t seem to be any talks about the university’s place in publishing. So I proposed one.

  • The raw and the cooked

    A book chapter that maps the publishing platforms and relationships that determine how nonfiction storytelling reaches an audience, and puts forward an argument about what makes a piece of writing ‘authentic’.

  • Personal experience, turned outwards

    Reporting – finding out about the external world – can be understand as a form of personal experience, which is deliberately turned outward and tested by verification. Authenticity exists not only in marginal practices, but also mainstream ones.

  • Old technologies

    Our relationship to text has changed from the heyday of Letraset. Software gives us choices of font, size, layout that most people never had before. And we have to make difficult archival decisions, in an unstable environment.