by Mackenzie Weeks Mahoney | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Who Do You Serve When You Serve Yourself? Consumer Labor, Automation, and a Century of Self-Service We rarely need to ask what “self-service” means. When you fill up your gas tank on the way to work, or surreptitiously mix Coke with horchata at the soda fountain, or...
by Michael Reyes | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Long Surnames and Pride: On Alma and How She Got Her Name Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela thinks her name is too long. When it doesn’t fit on a single sheet of paper, she tapes paper scraps onto the edges to make it fit. Alma then begins to question her place...
by Taylor Held | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Seeing Minds Through Minds: Determining Whose Perception to Trust in Sense and Sensibility The Dashwood sisters are on the verge of a crisis. They are young, single, fatherless, and fortuneless; marriage is their only method of attaining financial and personal...
by Erin Gould | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Publishing in Academia: Reflectionsfrom a ’24th Grader’ I remember my thoughts as I walked into the book exhibit at a conference in London last summer: “Can I just snuggle amongst all the books?” That may sound a little ridiculous, but I’ve always loved being in...
by Kelsey McFaul | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
UnBreakable Bonds: Literary Ecosystems in Africa The 2019 theme for the Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala, Uganda—“UnBreakable Bonds” —began with a question: what does it mean to be a prize competition, and by extension a publisher, only open to writers living on...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Spanish is Not a Foreign Language: Publishing and National Identity In 2018, the Latinx population in the United States reached 59.9 million.[1] Given the current climate of fear and uncertainty created by the policies of the Trump administration toward immigrant...
