I've moved to Bluesky @richardjeanso.bsky.social and am now posting on that platform; hope to see you there!
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Hi folks, I'm posting again and I am now posting on Bluesky. You can find me there at: @richardjeanso.bsky.social - Thanks!
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Ok 1 more: Random House's actual pub record of its novelists' race (from @RichardJeanSo's Redlining Culture); vs. LLM models prompted to "recall from memory" the authors/races RH pub'd by yr. LLMs fantasize the same progress in diversity that So's book debunks as industry myth.
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The Society of Novel Studies is holding its biennial conference: NOVEL LANGUAGES at Duke next year and the CFP is up now! Please check out our site for more info about all the great seminars, keynotes, and more sites.duke.edu/sns2025/
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genuine question--not stirring shit up for kicks--how do we square panic and/or revulsion about guidelines like this with the fact that publishers are now backtracking on efforts to diversify (as reported by @dan_sinykin @RichardJeanSo among others)?
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"Initial enthusiasm leads to a spate of hires and acquisitions of books by more diverse writers. Those hires receive too little support and endure discrimination."—@dan_sinykin (BIG FICTION) and @richardjeanso ( REDLINING CULTURE), @TheAtlantic
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A new study by @dan_sinykin and @RichardJeanSo reveals significant progress in bringing more diversity to publishing. But these changes might already be proving to be fleeting
theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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Authors of color have doubled their share of published novels since 2020, according to new numbers from @dan_sinykin and @RichardJeanSo—progress that already seems fleeting in a publishing industry straining to achieve diversity. theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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Really important thread - shows how hard it is to diversify the publishing industry and how easy it is to stop.
I wrote about the publishing industry's post #BLM diversity push - the largest transformation of its kind in US history - and their current attempts to dismantle it, for quite dubious reasons w/ @dan_sinykin at @TheAtlantic. A thread to summarize the article's main arguments >>>
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@GJamesGough Hi! the unroll you asked for: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1… Enjoy :) 🤖
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Great thread, and I also suspect that the current market research is so out of date/perfunctory as to be useless.
When I read "we don't know how to break this out/we don't have a vision for this," I feel angry that publishers are willing to rest on that; it's a bad sign.
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Critical thread on representation in the US publishing industry. These findings are incredibly disheartening (but perhaps unsurprising) and resonate for those of us working in Country music studies.
I wrote about the publishing industry's post #BLM diversity push - the largest transformation of its kind in US history - and their current attempts to dismantle it, for quite dubious reasons w/ @dan_sinykin at @TheAtlantic. A thread to summarize the article's main arguments >>>
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I wrote about the publishing industry's post #BLM diversity push - the largest transformation of its kind in US history - and their current attempts to dismantle it, for quite dubious reasons w/ @dan_sinykin at @TheAtlantic. A thread to summarize the article's main arguments >>>
I wrote about the publishing industry's post #BLM diversity push - the largest transformation of its kind in US history - and their current attempts to dismantle it, for quite dubious reasons w/ @dan_sinykin at @TheAtlantic. A thread to summarize the article's main arguments >>>
And thanks to my old friend and long time collaborator, @dan_sinykin for inviting me into this project. It's been a highlight of my career working on this material with you for the past decade, and it shows that good research can emerge from deep friendships.
I forgot the link to the actual article!!!! Sorry!!!! theatlantic.com/books/archiv…