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Peter Gilliver has been an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1987, and is now one of the Dictionary's most experienced lexicographers; he has also contributed to several other dictionaries published by OUP. In addition to his lexicographical work, he has been writing and speaking about the history of the OED for over fifteen years. In this two part Q&A, we learn more about how his passion for lexicography inspired him.
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What was it like as one of the few female performers in the New York Philharmonic in the 1960s? We sat down with cellist and author Evangeline Benedetti to hear the answer to this and other questions about performance and teaching careers, favorite composers, and life behind the doors of Lincoln Center.
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From time to time, we try to give you a glimpse into our offices around the globe. Kate Farquhar-Thomson came to Oxford University Press in 1999 in search of a country life – and found it! Today finds her heading up an almost (apart from the Americas) global PR team for the Oxford University Press's academic division. We sat down with Kate to talk about her publishing career and what it's like to work for OUP.
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Ariana Milligan recently started working with Oxford University Press’s Global Digital Products Marketing team in New York. She tells us about how working on products such as Grove Art Online and Oxford Music Online creates an inspiring day-to-day life.
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We sat down with Lauren Jackson, an Assistant Marketing Manager based in our New York office, to quiz her on her favourite words, her favourite books, and her favourite UFC fighter. We are delighted to welcome Lauren to the marketing team and are jealous of what she keeps in her desk drawer... You can find out more about Lauren below.
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Please welcome another newbie to the Social Media team at Oxford University Press, Estefania Ospina, who joined the gang in August 2015, just two weeks ago, as an OUPblog Deputy Editor and Social Media Manager! You can learn more about Estefania below. When did you start working at OUP? 6 June 2016. What was your first job in publishing? Oxford University Press is my first publishing job;
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Katie Stileman works as the UK Publicist for Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series (VSIs). She tells us a bit about what working for OUP looks like. If she wasn't working on publicity at OUP, she would be doing publicity for Taylor Swift.
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In September 2013, during a visit to Central and Southeast Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Consequently, the Collaborative Innovation Centre of Silk Road Economic Belt Studies has been established in Xi’an, China, which was the eastern starting point of the ancient road.
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The field of "legal history" studies the relationship that “law” and legal institutions have to the society that surrounds them. "Law” means everything from local regulations and rules promulgated by administrative agencies, to statutes and court decisions. Legal history is interested in how “law” and legal institutions operate, and how they change over time in reaction to changing economic, social, and political conditions.
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Publishing music books would be much harder without our stellar editorial team. We sat down with three editorial assistants from the New York office - Lauralee, Eden, and Andrew - to talk about Oxford University Press, their music lives inside and out of the office, and current literary addictions.
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Oxford University Press is pleased to welcome Matthias Siepe as the new Editor-in-Chief of Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS). We got to know Matthais during an interview and discovered how he came to specialise in cardiovascular surgery, how he sees this field in the future, and what he has in store for ICTVS.
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Oxford University Press is pleased to welcome René Prêtre as one of the the new Editors-in-Chief of Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (MMCTS). We got to know Dr. Prêtre during an interview and discovered how he came to specialise in cardio-thoracic surgery, how he sees this field in the future, and what he has in store for the Manual.
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Oxford University Press is pleased to welcome the new Editor-in-Chief of Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (MMCTS), Roberto Lorusso. We got to know Dr. Lorusso during an interview and discovered how he came to specialise in cardio-thoracic surgery, how he sees this field in the future, and what he has in store for the Manual.
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Long excluded from serious consideration within psychology and the neurosciences, consciousness is back in business. A new journal Neuroscience of Consciousness will catalyse this new understanding by publishing the best new research, review, and opinion on how our "inner universe" comes to be.
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Describe your latest book. I recently edited and illustrated a collection of ghost stories, Ghostly. It features stories by E. A. Poe, Neil Gaiman, Saki, Kelly Link, and M. R. James, and also some stories by writers who one might not associate with ghost stories, including A. S. Byatt, P. G. Wodehouse, and Edith Wharton. [...]
Describe your latest book. My new book, Thunder and Lightning, is about weather and humankind through the ages. How did the last good book you read end up in your hands, and why did you read it? I'm reading Ian Frazier's On the Rez, which was given to me by a friend. Fantastic book. Aside [...]
Please welcome another newbie to the Social Media team at Oxford University Press, Priscilla Yu, who joined the gang in September 2015, just a month ago, as an OUPblog Deputy Editor and Social Media Marketing Assistant! You can learn more about Priscilla below.
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I was going to make this a Monday thing, but the week ran away from me. So let’s try Thursday. I’ve enjoyed having a regular day for posting my weekly booklists—it helps keep me on track, knowing I’ve slotted the roundup for Sundays. I thought it might be nice to set aside time to answer questions from the comments on another dedicated day. Maybe not every week—every other, perhaps? When I answer questions in the comment box, I’m never sure if the original poster sees the answer (since sometimes it takes me a while to reply). So I’m going to start pulling questions into these Q&A posts. You can leave more questions (or discussion topics in general) in the comments here and I’ll tackle them in the next Q&A.
On my High Tide for Huck and Rilla post, Jen asked,
I’ve just got to jump in and ask, do your kids read a lot in their free time? Your philosophy is very much like what I’ve done with my kids and I also have olders and youngers. It just doesn’t seem like mine are not like I once was and couldn’t wait to have some free time to read. I wonder if it is all of the technology available (which I greatly limited with the older kids and have, admittedly, given too much slack with the younger ones). I am comforted that there are still really great books going into their little ears and they have book jags every once in awhile, but…am I being idealistic in our present society or simply expecting too much of a picture book image in our homeschool?
With this many kids, my answer’s going to be all over the place. Some of them read constantly, incessantly. One of my teens was an obsessive reader when she was younger, but now she goes in spurts—she’ll be up late many nights in a row, devouring a stack of books, and then weeks will pass where she feels sort of meh about reading and pretty much only reads things necessary for her studies. I think she gets more sleep during the meh times, so it’s probably a healthy balance.
My younger children are less book-obsessed than my older three, and I do think that has something to do with the presence of gaming devices in their world—increased options, perhaps? We have limits on game time (two hours a day), so my younger kids’ day divides roughly into morning lesson time, after-lunch gaming time, and the rest of the day is free time until evening chores. There’s a good chunk of free time in the mornings, too, most days. Whereas Jane, Rose, and Beanie were apt to spend a large portion of their free time buried in a book, my younger trio choose other activities more often—drawing, crafting, Snap Circuits, outdoor play, etc. A lot of hands-on activities. If I find them sprawled on the sofa with a book, it is probably a graphic novel or picture book. Rilla hasn’t sparked to a prose fiction series yet the way her older sisters did with Redwall, the Warriors books, Boxcar Children, and other series. She is more drawn to art books and nonfiction—specifically books about bugs, birds, and animals.
So my younger kids aren’t as bookwormish, but I don’t worry about it. I figure they are getting plenty of reading in their day through readalouds and audiobooks—as you say, “really great books going into their little ears and book jags every once in a while.” That’s a dead-on depiction of what I’m seeing here these days! Since our homeschooling style is literature-centric, I feel confident they are absorbing a wide range of excellent books, stories, and poems.
One more thought: I do make a habit of combing the shelves for good picture books every couple of weeks. I’ll swap out a batch in an easily accessible basket—or leave a pile on my dresser, which seems even more effective at catching their eye. For some reason everyone likes reading on my bed best. I display books face out so the covers jump out at the kids. Huck is especially attracted to these casual displays and I will often him lolling on my bed, surrounded by these little curated collections. They also jump on any library or review copy that comes through the door—it seems the novelty makes a book extra attractive. I’ve known them to check out library copies of books they’ve walked past on our own shelves a thousand times. And the review copies—oh boy. Anything that arrives in a box is a hot commodity. The magic of the brown truck?
A con tradition, ReedPOP schedules a final panel at New York Comic Con where the main staff gathers to listen to concerns from attendees. This year, the panel consisted of Lance Fensterman (Senior Global Vice President), Mike Armstrong (Event Director), MK Goodwin (Content Manager), Jackie Williams (Marketing Director), and Kristina Rogers (Event Manager). (Shown, right to left, above.) […]
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Describe your book. As a YouTuber, my occupation is to share my life with anyone who wants to listen. It's a dream job that I've had for almost eight years, and my audience has grown to 7,500,000 people — with half a billion total video views. I can barely wrap my mind around it and [...]
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Amy Stewart is the author of the novel Girl Waits with Gun and six other books, including The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. Some of her earliest research for the novel happened right here in Portland, and Tin House editor Masie Cochran was there to witness it all. We've brought them back together to reminisce [...]
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Describe your latest book. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a fairy-tale of New York (well, mostly New York). New York with added genies (jinn). It's about a jinnia princess, Dunia, who acquires a large number of human offspring, and uses them to help her battle an invasion of our world by the [...]
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Note: Join us this Thursday, August 27, at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing for an author event with Christopher Moore. Describe your latest book. Secondhand Souls is the sequel to my bestselling novel A Dirty Job, which was about a single dad in San Francisco who gets the job of being Death and runs [...]
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How The Light Gets In (named, aptly, in honour of a Leonard Cohen song) has taken the festival world by storm with its yearly celebration of philosophy and music. We spoke to founder and festival organiser Hilary Lawson, who is a full-time philosopher, Director of the Institute of Art and Ideas, and someone with lots to say about keepings things equal and organising a great party.
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Maybe they should consider Stub Hub or other such service as an official reseller of their tickets. Allows them to have a lower cost solution and still allow fans to get the tickets legally. The two MI Big Ten college sports teams use it as the official second hand seller of their tickets.
>>>There was criticism over the “Blue Entrance” for VIPs, press, pros. The times allowed for entrance in the morning were not properly maintained. Those attendees could have used the normal “Green Entrance”, and RP will work to better communicate that in the future.
There was a VIP entrance?
1. The app really does suck. I punched in a bunch of stuff on my NYCC account on my desktop and it wouldn’t sync with the app. Waste of time.
2. They really do need to fix registration. Malicious activity or not, they clearly underestimated how many people would try to register. Not everyone can get in, I think people understand that. But there’s no need to make it a cruel and torturous process , like making people think they had a pass, only for an error message or a timeout to cause you to lose it (I lost a VIP pass that way). Doing all the passes at once just caused chaos.
3. They need to get rid of those booths in the hallway to Artist Alley. Yes, making people go outside on Saturday and Sunday eased the problem, but it’s dependent on good weather. Good luck telling someone who spent thousands are artwork they have to walk outside in the rain to get back to the main hall. Yes, you lose money by getting rid of those booths. You also lose money if the fire marshal shuts you down, which nearly happened on Friday.
4. I thought the main hall panels were well handled. You can’t sit in there all day and catch everything, but you can catch one or two things you love. So that’s cool.
5. This was my third NYCC. The crowds were unreal. I’m not sure what they can do about it, short of expanding the Center. People were shell-shocked on Thursday by the size of the crowds. I had someone asking to buy my pass as I was leaving on Sunday at 3 pm. The floor closed at 5.
6. I heard the #7 train referred as the Nerd Train. It amused me.
7. The concession stand were busy and Starbuck was ridiculous, but you could at least eat there, unlike 2012 (last time I went), when it was Starbucks and some sandwich place on site that was it.
8. I love NYCC, but I can’t help but wonder if it was my last one. Just the size of the crowds…it’s exhausting and overwhelming. Plus, the registration system this year was just cruel. I only do a con every 3 years or so because of where I live. Maybe I’ll pick one a little more sensible like Baltimore next time. We’ll see…
As an exhibitor, I think Reed deserves excessive praise for their panel room support. I’ve never had a two-person AV team AND a two-person line management team at any other show. It might have been just a perk with the larger rooms, I don’t know, but those guys took care of us so well I was expecting them to have dinner ready for me when I got home.
The main floor traffic was a total disaster. We just need to set aside a couple designated cosplay/photo taking areas and mark off a separate browsing lane in front of the booths so traffic can still move past while people stop to browse/chat/shop. You will lose a few thousand bucks in booth rental if you designate picture taking spots but it will completely change the experience on the floor.
“Blue = Pro, VIP, Press, Speaker, Guest, Medical and Exhibitor Show Floor Entrance and Queuing Area”
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I was on the show floor Thursday (the big booths), Saturday, and Sunday.
The only places where traffic was bad were at the smaller vendor booths towards the back and sides, where the aisles were narrower. Four people could move down those aisles, which means only the middle handled traffic, as shoppers stopped in the other two aisles.
Photo spots won’t help much. Say you’re walking one way, and the cosplayer is walking the other direction. Are both of you going to navigate a crowded show floor to get to a designated space to take a photo which takes… a few minutes to stage? Better to remind people to take photos at the intersections. But then, the intersections will attract hordes of photographers…
People do need to be reminded to only stop at the intersections, and then preferably by the supporting tree columns. Me, I’m not above going into “New Yorker” mode with people who block aisles, or stop moving in the middle of an aisle with heavy traffic.
Torsten just because you can find something with google doesn’t mean anyone knows about it.
“Torsten just because you can find something with google doesn’t mean anyone knows about it.”
NYCC has always been great at telling people where that entry is. There’s always a slip in my ProPass letting me know where to go. But it’s really all for naught once the show is opened and the main queue line has been let on the floor.
“Could attendees reserve [panels in advance, online? Not really, as the Con and content providers want a full house. RP did allow people into panels as other people left. [This was my experience at the DC Super Hero Girls panel.]”
I don’t get this answer. They could still have advanced reservation for panels, while also having a standby line in case the panels still have extra room. In fact, to be more fair they could always have a set percent of seats specifically for standby. I’ve suggested before that they could use the RFID badge technology so that attendees can reserve for panels online, and then staff members could scan their badges as they entered the panel room. Disney World has a similar system for their attractions called FastPass+, where park goers can reserve up to 3 FastPasses in advanced per day. There’s also a tier system, so that you’re limited to only reserving one E-ticket attraction, so that not all E-ticket attraction FastPasses get booked as fast. I guess the main complication is that all other panel rooms aside from Main Events do no clear inbetween panels, so they don’t know how many seats they could allow people to reserve in advanced. I think they could at least test out an RFID badge system for Main Events as a replacement for the wristband system, as that would cut down time waiting for wristbands and also clear up space that is currently used for wristband distribution. One big drawback with the first come/first serve wristband distribution each morning is that it prevents attendees from waiting for early panels and autograph sessions elsewhere. If an RFID badge system ended up working well for Main Events, then they could expand that to other panels.
The Blue Entrance and the holding area near the 3E and 3C entrances has been in use since (at least) 2012, when I included it in my survival guide:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc12-survival-guide/
I also included it this year:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc15-getting-around/
Yes… I know… just because I post stuff online doesn’t mean anyone reads it…
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How do you redeem your reservation? Do you scan your badge upon entering Javits, and get a wristband?
Do they scan your badge as you enter the event space? How much longer does that take when 3000 attendees are eager to get good seats?
BookExpo (in the past at least, dunno about currently) would have ticketed events for the more popular authors. Some you paid for in advance (like author luncheons), others were distributed freely each morning, starting a few hours before the show floor opened.
ReedPOP could easily do that at the ticket booth set up in near the Blue Entrance., which is outside the “clean zone” of NYCC, and generally underutilised. The badge is scanned, and then you are limited on how many tickets you can pick up for yourself and friends. Or you get wristbanded, which makes crowd control a lot easier later.
I’d actually like to see an author luncheon, or breakfast, like at BookExpo. Stage it in a hotel ballroom, you eat while the guest talks, you get a gift bag upon exiting, Everybody’s happy.