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Writing It!

The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida

"Writing It! The Podcast About Academics & Writing" dives deep into the world of academic writing and publishing. Join us for conversations with academics and editors as we discuss challenges, strategies, and insights from our writing lives. As we share our experiences and helpful hacks, we make the process of writing and getting published a bit more transparent and a bit less overwhelming.

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88 épisodes

  1. Episode 88: Finding Co-Authors Who Can Fill In Your Gaps with Sharon Avni and Laura Yares 58:49
  2. Episode 87: Not Waiting for Someday with Tilar Mazzeo 55:02
  3. Episode 86: "Maybe I Should Write the Way I Teach" with John Kaag 46:26
  4. Episode 85: "We Thought We’d Just Write an Annotated Memoir," But the Agent and Editor Had Other Ideas With Joanna Sliwa 59:14
  5. Episode 84: Writing Page-Turning Banking History with Rebecca Kobrin 47:48
  6. Episode 83: [Encore] Application Advice for the Job Season with Jeff Kopstein 50:32
  7. Episode 82: When Writing Is the Biggest Hurdle with Dr. Elissa Sampson 33:18
  8. Episode 81: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships: Open to All Career Stages, but Innovative, Groundbreaking Research Is a Must 28:23
  9. Episode 80: What It Means to Show That This Book Has Value to Readers with Laura Portwood-Stacer 40:32
  10. Episode 79: Books that Change the Conversation with Fred Appel 41:20
  11. Episode 78: Getting It Done with Ayelet Fishbach 41:34
  12. Episode 77: Who Cares and Why Now? And More Editor Straight Talk with Cate Hodorowicz 43:04
  13. Episode 76: Negotiating Book Length with the Press with Jenna Weissman Joselit 44:16
  14. Episode 75: Special Episode of Writing It!/Peer Review: Creativity and Fulfillment in Academia 51:34
  15. Episode 74: It Actually Is About Love with Laura McGrath 55:33
  16. Episode 73: Luck & a Lot of Preparation: What It Takes to Move to Trade Press for Book Two with Prof. Max Mueller 1:01:28
  17. Episode 72: Making the Familiar Strange, and the Strange Familiar with essayist (and author of When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down), Anne Fadiman 47:47
  18. Episode 71: When the Biography Writing Road is Long with Megan Marshall 54:03
  19. Episode 70: "Yes, your editor googles you..." and other things your editor thinks and does with Adina Popescu 38:54
  20. Episode 69: ENCORE EPISODE 69: Figuring out the Post-Tenure Book with Elli Stern 59:48
  21. Episode 68: The Agent’s Perspective with literary agent Alia Hanna Habib 47:11
  22. Episode 67: When Your Academic Study Becomes a Surprise Bestseller with Richard Breitman 34:26
  23. Episode 66: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Academic Writing with Helen Sword 1:03:17
  24. Episode 65: On Being an Academic Who Writes Popular Books w/ Noah Isenberg 58:45
  25. Episode 64: Reinventing the Traditional Academic Journal 1:00:17
  26. Episode 63: How to Get Grant Money with Raphael Folsom 45:09
  27. Episode 62: Writing Family History with Elizabeth Graver 51:21
  28. Episode 61: Writing The Book about Katrina with Andy Horowitz 46:08
  29. Episode 60: Why Our Public Persona Matters to the Stories We Write with Jim Loeffler 54:21
  30. Episode 59: When dissertations do not become tenure books & research becomes NYT Op-eds with Miriam Udel 58:02
  31. Episode 58: Finding Joy in Writing After Burn-Out with Samantha Baskind 39:55
  32. Episode 57: Deciding When (and When Not) to Write the Hard Stuff with Claire Sufrin 48:31
  33. Episode 56: From Academic Writing to Self-Help with Liz Arleo, MD 28:33
  34. Episode 55: Choosing the Next Project with Mark Oppenheimer 54:58
  35. Episode 54: What to do when the book editor says, ‘This won’t sell’ with J.E. Smyth 47:12
  36. Episode 53: You Don’t Have to Feel Creative to Create Good Writing with Tim Shenk 44:47
  37. Episode 52: Letting the primary sources tell the story with Rachel Cockerell 27:29
  38. Episode 51: Heather Clark Part II: Maybe you don’t have to “stay in your lane” 31:14
  39. Episode 50: Heather Clark Part I: When the editor says, “We want a doorstopper! 28:00
  40. Episode 49: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words 35:30
  41. Episode 48: Four Decades of Writing Biography 47:02
  42. Episode 47: Historian-turned-Playwright (With a little help from real estate good luck!) 34:05
  43. Episode 46: Cold-calling works! 48:05
  44. Episode 45: “Before there was therapy, there was religion” 48:31
  45. Episode 44: What AI can do for us academics (and what it can’t do for us without sucking the joy from life) 59:22
  46. Episode 43: “Filling the gaps of history… with fiction!” with Lauren Willig 54:33
  47. Episode 42: “Two Years Ago I Quit My Life” with scholar and writer, Anne Boyd 1:09:56
  48. Episode 41: Finding your form… and voice 51:32
  49. Episode 40: Finding courage to write the broader story 51:12
  50. Episode 39: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing 47:22