Writing It!
By The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida
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"Writing It! The Podcast About Academics & Writing" dives deep into the world of academic writing and publishing. Join us for conversations with academics and editors as we discuss challenges, strategies, and insights from our writing lives. As we share our experiences and helpful hacks, we make the process of writing and getting published a bit more transparent and a bit less overwhelming.
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Episode 75: Special Episode of Writing It!/Peer Review: Creativity and Fulfillment in Academia
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May 04, 2026 |
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Episode 74: It Actually Is About Love with Laura McGrath
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Episode 73: Luck & a Lot of Preparation: What It Takes to Move to Trade Press for Book Two with Prof. Max Mueller
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Episode 72: Making the Familiar Strange, and the Strange Familiar with essayist (and author of When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down), Anne Fadiman
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Episode 71: When the Biography Writing Road is Long with Megan Marshall
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Episode 70: "Yes, your editor googles you..." and other things your editor thinks and does with Adina Popescu
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Episode 69: ENCORE EPISODE 69: Figuring out the Post-Tenure Book with Elli Stern
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Episode 68: The Agent’s Perspective with literary agent Alia Hanna Habib
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Episode 67: When Your Academic Study Becomes a Surprise Bestseller with Richard Breitman
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Episode 66: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Academic Writing with Helen Sword
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Episode 65: On Being an Academic Who Writes Popular Books w/ Noah Isenberg
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Episode 64: Reinventing the Traditional Academic Journal
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Episode 63: How to Get Grant Money with Raphael Folsom
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Episode 62: Writing Family History with Elizabeth Graver
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Episode 61: Writing The Book about Katrina with Andy Horowitz
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Episode 60: Why Our Public Persona Matters to the Stories We Write with Jim Loeffler
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Episode 59: When dissertations do not become tenure books & research becomes NYT Op-eds with Miriam Udel
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Episode 58: Finding Joy in Writing After Burn-Out with Samantha Baskind
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Episode 57: Deciding When (and When Not) to Write the Hard Stuff with Claire Sufrin
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Episode 56: From Academic Writing to Self-Help with Liz Arleo, MD
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Episode 55: Choosing the Next Project with Mark Oppenheimer
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Episode 54: What to do when the book editor says, ‘This won’t sell’ with J.E. Smyth
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Episode 53: You Don’t Have to Feel Creative to Create Good Writing with Tim Shenk
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Episode 52: Letting the primary sources tell the story with Rachel Cockerell
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Episode 51: Heather Clark Part II: Maybe you don’t have to “stay in your lane”
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Episode 50: Heather Clark Part I: When the editor says, “We want a doorstopper!
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May 19, 2025 |
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Episode 49: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
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May 08, 2025 |
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Episode 48: Four Decades of Writing Biography
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Episode 47: Historian-turned-Playwright (With a little help from real estate good luck!)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Episode 46: Cold-calling works!
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Episode 45: “Before there was therapy, there was religion”
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 44: What AI can do for us academics (and what it can’t do for us without sucking the joy from life)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Episode 43: “Filling the gaps of history… with fiction!” with Lauren Willig
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Episode 42: “Two Years Ago I Quit My Life” with scholar and writer, Anne Boyd
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Episode 41: Finding your form… and voice
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Episode 40: Finding courage to write the broader story
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Episode 39: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Episode 38: Relationships and Writing
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Episode 37: How a great elevator pitch can make a difference
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Episode 36: What do book publicists do for academic authors?
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Episode 35: GETTING THE READER FROM BEGINNING TO END, WITH MERVE EMRE
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Episode 34: When Writing Becomes Like Painting
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Episode 33: Psychedelics & Writing
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Episode 32: 5,000-10.000 Downloads of a Conversation about Your Book
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Episode 31: Being Open to Collaboration
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Episode 30: What is the magic that happens when you work with a Developmental Editor?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Episode 29: Are “writing spurts” a thing?
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Episode 28: An Editor's Perspective: Sandra Korn
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Episode 27: Turning points in our academic writing
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Episode 26: “Modern Love” in the Academic Life
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Episode 25: The Book Seminar with Sam Freedman
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Episode 24: The Joy of Editing
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May 20, 2024 |
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Episode 23: From writing about a Chicago heat wave to writing about 2020: A conversation with NYU Sociologist and New Yorker writer Eric Klinenberg
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May 06, 2024 |
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Episode 22: Maurice Samuels on the Challenges of writing Biography
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Episode 21: What’s the deal with academics writing for "The Conversation"?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Episode 20: Would Nahmanides have had a beard? Creating a graphic history with historian Nina Caputo and illustrator Liz Clarke
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 19: The pitch is the start of a relationship
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Episode 18: “Why is this a must-read book?” How to show a literary agent/editor that your book is important: a conversation with literary agent and former editor, Susan Rabiner
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Episode 17: Writing while Parenting
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 16: When you need lots of images in your book
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Episode 15: The Path to a Pulitzer
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Episode 14: What’s so important about your book’s meta-data? Understanding publishing from the perspective of a university press
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Episode 13: Why publish with a ‘trade division’ of an academic press?
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Episode 12: The Truth About Book Promotion with Sandra Fox
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Episode 11: Figuring out how to write the post-tenure book
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 10: Getting Unstuck in our Academic Writing with Gillian Steinberg
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Episode 09: How to tell your academic story in applications: Special issue for job market/fellowship/graduate school application season
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Episode 08: Writing as a practice for self-understanding
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Episode 07: Finally! Insightful, concrete advice for your job market writing materials
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Episode 06: Behind-the-Scenes of a First Book & a New Journal
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Episode 05: An Editor's Perspective - Elaine Maisner, UNC Press
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Episode 04: "What is it all for?" The challenge of finding a writing motivation after the first book with Professor Martin Kavka
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Episode 03: An Editor’s Perspective - Jennifer Banks
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Episode 02: Unlearning Academic Writing Tics and Reaching a Broader Audience
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 01: Choosing Literary Non-Fiction... And All That Comes With It
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Jul 01, 2023 |