{"product_id":"reasons-and-feelings-writing-for-the-humanities-now-9780226843629","title":"Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermining higher education at every turn, what can still motivate humanists to write? Galvanizing, imaginative, and unrepentantly nerdy, Sarah Mesle's \u003ci\u003eReasons and Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e offers practical writing and publishing advice alongside a forcefully affirmative account of why humanities writing matters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mesle proposes that writing can help envision sustainable community, but only when we recognize that humanist authority comes from both our reasons and our feelings. Alongside everyday compositional advice--including strategies for addressing different audiences, pitching publications, and managing writing anxiety--readers will find an account of how such craft practices connect to both their intellectual commitments and their historical conditions. Mesle shows how university-trained writers at all levels benefit from embracing a broader range of styles and affects. Doing so helps them harness their writing's community-building potential and makes them better able to value their own expertise, whether they write for the classroom, in public venues, or for the specialized scholarly communities that share their niche, weird, or beloved, objects of study. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReasons and Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e draws on Mesle's expertise as a professor of writing and her work as an editor helping academics shift between writing for scholarly venues and journalistic ones. In a voice that's honest, warm, accessible, and bracingly funny, \u003ci\u003eReasons and Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e gives humanists a path toward bolder fantasies of the worlds their writing can make.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Mesle\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of writing at the University of Southern California. The former senior humanities editor at the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere she is also a regular contributor, Mesle is the founding coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eLARB \u003c\/i\u003echannel \u003ci\u003eAvidly \u003c\/i\u003eand the short-book series Avidly Reads. Mesle's writing has also appeared in venues ranging from \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eInStyle \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51649021673746,"sku":"9780226843629","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7dcc55f5-4db2-4426-95b2-e54246e74713.jpg?v=1765972551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reasons-and-feelings-writing-for-the-humanities-now-9780226843629","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}