tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post6626091317896568071..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: annals of academic publishing, part 437Mark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-36770809667417604862010-09-17T20:31:06.449-04:002010-09-17T20:31:06.449-04:00In 2003, out on the job market, I sent Modernism/M...In 2003, out on the job market, I sent Modernism/Modernity an article and then waited about a year not hearing anything before I finally wrote the managing editor to see what was up. She said she'd look into it, meanwhile I heard nothing -- three months. Wrote again. Heard this time that it was being forwarded to the editor to whom I'd directed it the first time. So they had it! Then nothing. I gave up and sent it elsewhere (American Literature, I think) and had my rejection in three months. (That article now sits in Jacket 26.) <br /><br />But it's not just academic journals. Cleaning out an office in 2006, a Boston Review managing editor found a note Tim Donnelly had written praising a critical piece I had submitted, and asking for more work. Only it was two years between when he wrote it and his sub-editor actually posted it. <br /><br />It's one thing to sit on mss. a year -- don't know an editor to whom it hasn't happened. But losing them and then letting the poor soul stew in his lack of recourse is another; which is why I sign this happily,<br />Jeff HamiltonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-36246541869943021752010-09-14T16:23:35.833-04:002010-09-14T16:23:35.833-04:00This is why blogs are such a godsend, isn't it...This is why blogs are such a godsend, isn't it? They're fast, and available everywhere. I mean, odds are more people will read your post about the review than will ever read the review itself.<br /><br />At some point, we should seize control of the MLA and institute some guidelines for academic recognition of blogging. Or maybe not. Maybe it's better when there's no kind of reward. I mean, I dread the day when grad schools start requiring students to blog for credit.<br /><br />B.Archambeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-12058616486569995632010-09-13T16:40:49.587-04:002010-09-13T16:40:49.587-04:00Glad that it is in print. But you needn't, I ...Glad that it is in print. But you needn't, I don't think, be coy about the journal name. Google up the author name, book title and your name and fairly near the top of the search results you will see listed issue 41:3 of the. . . <br /><br />. . . well, okay, I won't name it either....<br /><br />The usually vague "somehow" might be accurate here. The new editor may not know wtf the old one did, or didn't do.<br /><br />Sounds like an interesting book. I assume Reznikoff gets the once-over in it, yes?Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.com