What Do You Wish You Had Written?

By October 12, 2012April 11th, 2014The Chronicle of Higher Education

Years ago, when I was a book editor always trolling for new projects, I asked a productive senior scholar at an Ivy League university for recommendations of people she thought were doing good work in her field. I already had a notebook full of leads—young scholars and professors at out-of-the-way places who had published interesting journal articles—but was looking for a few more names.

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