Raquel Menéndez

@raquelmenendez.bsky.social

✒️ Life Writing (diaries) | 🗣️ Gender and Canonicity | 🏛Theory of Literature @ Universidad de Salamanca | #Humboldtian

Where are my fellow editors in the humanities? I am writing about journal submission volume, AI, and the humanities. If you are an editor, I'd love to know if you are seeing a lot of AI-generated submissions-- or a lot of submissions in general. Or if you have the problem of low submission volume.

“Muñoz Molina has what we might call a hypermoral sensibility, which drives his newspaper writing and, I argue, simultaneously drives his novel writing.” New at PB: @becquer.bsky.social on the novelists who became Spain’s premiere op-ed columnists.

“Not So Ephemeral After All”: Talking Op-Eds, War, and Memory with Bécquer Seguín - Public Books

“Why does the op-ed still hold sway over writers who want to be intellectuals or want to have some public presence?”

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From the archives-- pages from the first issue (1886) of MLN which invited advertisers at $10/page while the journal built a subscription list. The pages of early issues were a hodgepodge of advertisements (mostly for books and language classes), philological notes, and lists of new books.

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