I’ve been thinking that perhaps I should try looking for work in book indexing. Not just because I take pleasure in a well-indexed book and greatly enjoyed the threads on indexing last fall at Crooked Timber and languagehat; it also seems like the kind of work I would find congenial. Via the American Society of […]
Raymond Shapiro has worked for the NYRB since its inception, and for years proofread the personals. He estimates that from the 1960s to the ’80s he read 30,000 of them, in his own publication and elsewhere, and collated 400 or so into a book, Lonely in Baltimore. He says that back then, people were fascinated […]
I forgot to add, last night: I’ve got a part-time job lined up for the winter term, and probably the summer, too, to eke out my lecturer’s salary. I’m going to be proofreading for a text-digitization project at Midwestern University’s main library. Better yet, the texts being encoded are early modern ones, and my friend […]