“Is Nonfiction Dead?”: Answers to Burning Questions from the Publishing Post-Apocalypse

Please join the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities for a guest lecture by Zach Phillips. Organized in partnership with the Department of English, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture. Description: Is it true that nothing is selling these days? What is a platform, and where can I get one? Should I hire an outside publicist? Does going trade mean “dumbing down” my research for the layreader? An editor from Penguin Random House has gathered some of the most common questions asked by scholars on the verge of a nerv…