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A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2019
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Podcast episode
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For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other hard-working professionals who shepherd the text from manuscript to beautiful finished product? There are a bunch of them, and today we talk to one: Dawn Durante, Senior Acquisitions Editor at the University of Illinois Press for books in African American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Religion, and Anthropology. She tell us how it all works, from soup to nuts. Naturally, we at the New Books Network are very grateful for Dawn's work, and that of all her colleagues at UPs and trade presses, for without their efforts, there would be no New Books Network and you wouldn't get to listen to all these great authors talk about their great books. On with the show...
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Adam McNeil is a History PhD student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick focusing on Black runaway women during the broad eighteenth century.
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Released:
Oct 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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