Essay PUP Life: 37 years and nine lives at the Press December 02, 2024 I am often asked how long I have worked at av福利社. When I respond, 鈥�37 years,鈥� the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the 鈥渟ame place鈥� for all this time as PUP has gone through many evolutions since I first joined in January of 1987. Read More
Essay Charting change in a life鈥檚 journey through skills September 03, 2024 When my wonderful colleagues asked me to take on leadership of our budding聽Skills for Scholars series alongside the eminent former PUP director and editor-at-large, Peter Dougherty, I wanted to figure out how to find my philosophical mind within the universe of practical guides. It isn鈥檛 just that I was leaving my philosophical fun house, it was a venture out into an unfamiliar and unchartered territory. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Meetings, memos, and coffee in the conservatory July 25, 2024 As the senior editor for social science books here in the European office, my role is to seek out the most exciting and important new book ideas and work with authors to help them develop their work into proposals and eventually books. Read More
Essay Age of anxiety / age of hope April 22, 2024 We all know anxiety as a physiological response to a source of alarm. But it can also serve as an alarm in and of itself鈥攊f the real source of the anxiety is not evident to the conscious mind. Read More
Reading List 25 books for 25 years in Europe January 12, 2024 The 25th anniversary of the establishment of our European office is an important milestone in PUP鈥檚 mission to be a truly global publisher. These 25 books reflect the global appeal of the Press, and in the spirit of celebration, we offer a peek behind-the-scenes at our work on these unforgettable titles. Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from av福利社鈥檚 2023 fellows January 03, 2024 av福利社鈥� Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to expand access to publishing careers and address a lack of diversity across the industry. In July 2023, Faye Akpalu and Jon Kriney were welcomed to the press as our third-year Publishing Fellows. Read More
Essay Declaration of independents April 26, 2023 While there are many miles to go, booksellers deserve a day of celebration; a day to show the world the good they have done and the power a community bookstore can have. Read More
Essay In the name of connection: Notes on the 2022 meeting of the PUP European Advisory Board November 17, 2022 16 September 2022.聽The date was set.聽We would be meeting with the av福利社 European Advisory Board鈥攊n person!鈥攁fter a two-year hiatus. And we would be gathering in our new premises in leafy north Oxford, to which we had moved in late 2021. Read More
Video Celebrating 100 audiobooks November 14, 2022 In 2018, the av福利社 team launched the first university press audiobook program, Princeton Audio. Four years and almost a thousand hours of published audiobooks later, we are thrilled to be publishing our hundredth audiobook. Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from av福利社 fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, av福利社 welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to聽address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide聽Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative聽launched in 2018. Read More
Essay On anniversaries, time, patience, perseverance, and publishing October 11, 2022 As Cicero wrote, 鈥渨e truly can鈥檛 praise the love and pursuit of wisdom enough, since it allows a person to enjoy every stage of life free from worry.鈥� These same words of wisdom scale readily from an individual to an organization like PUP, as we navigate every stage of the book, and every stage of our life as a publisher. Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from av福利社鈥檚 inaugural fellows January 06, 2022 In 2021, av福利社 welcomed its inaugural Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created to address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative launched in 2018. Read More
Essay By Design | Book cover highlights of 2021 December 09, 2021 Adjusting to pandemic life in the past two years, we鈥檝e learned new ways to live, work, innovate, and flourish. Despite uncertainty, we鈥檝e done great things, shown abounding resilience and creativity. Read More
Essay Up close and circular October 22, 2021 Over the past year, if you were a bird in the habit of soaring over the suburban neighborhood in which I live, you would have seen me walking. Read More
Interview PUP Speaks Author expertise for an ever-changing world June 07, 2021 On June 2nd av福利社 launched PUP Speaks鈥攁n exciting new initiative to support and champion authors as expert speakers. Katie Stileman has been overseeing the set-up of this new enterprise. Read More
