by Thomas Hallock | May 29, 2020 | Road Course
How do you publish a book with an academic press? The question starts with one of the true mysteries of scholarly life: peer review. The already exhausted author, having toiling for years on an obscure topic that interests only distant peers and the closest of...
by Thomas Hallock | Nov 16, 2018 | Road Course
When a book project lulls, I think about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I think about Cairo, Illinois. At the end of Chapter 16 in Huck Finn, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi, the premise snaps. Huck and Jim bypass a slave’s path to freedom, Huck...
by Thomas Hallock | May 18, 2016 | Road Course
We were two eggheads in love, young and partially employed. I had just finished my dissertation about nature and frontier writing in the early United States. An undistinguished career awaited. No fellowships. No job. Julie needed a year to on finish her own thesis,...