DAVID EMBLIDGE

-- Author, Editor, Educator --
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

RECENT /​ FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS



PUBLISHED

Media Ethics -- "The Tattered Cover: A Lion in Sheep’s Clothing," Fall 2010

The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies -- "The Old Corner Bookstore: Rialto of Current Good Things, Hub of the Hub," Summer 2009

Media Ethics – “Frey vs. Thoreau: Which Liar Tells More Truth?” Fall 2008

Publishing Research Quarterly - "Rallying Point: Lewis Michaux's National Memorial African Bookstore," Fall 2008

Publishing Research Quarterly – book review: “Eliot and Rose: A Companion to The History of the Book,” Fall 2008

Commondreams.org - "My Bobby Kennedy and Yours," June 6, 2008

Southwest Review – literary essay: “The Palmer Method: Penmanship and the Tenor of Our Time,” 2007, winner 2007 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction

International Journal of the Arts in Society – article: “Literary Tears,” 2007

International Journal of the Humanities – case study: “The Viswanathan Plagiarism Case at Little, Brown, Publishers,” 2007

Trekking Atlas of the World – book chapters: “The Grand Canyon” and “The Appalachian Trail,” New Holland Publishers, 2006

Oxford Companion to the Book – contributor, three articles on bookstores (Abebooks.com, eBay.com, The Grolier Poetry Book Shop), 2009

PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS / CONSULTATIONS / CONFERENCES /PRESENTATIONS / AWARDS


CONSULTATIONS
Editorial and book proposal consultations available for nonfiction authors. Inquiries welcome: davidemblidge@​davidemblidge.com.

PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS
Bookings avilable for 2-day, 1-day and half-day workshops, at universities (for faculty, MFA programs, and others); writers' colonies; and other institutions. Inquiries welcome: davidemblidge@​davidemblidge.com.

FALL 2011

International Conference on the Book, Toronto, Oct. 14-16; presentation, "The Gotham Book Mart: Location, Location, Location"

SPRING 2011

May (participation in...)
Information Literacy Workshop, Emerson College, Boston
Publishers Weekly webinar on Google BookScan Settlement
Melville seminar, Providence Athenaeum
Ticknor Society Annual Meeting, Boston, lecture by Andreas Brown, “Deciphering Edward Gorey”

WINTER 2010-11

Key West Literary Seminar -- "The Hungry Muse: An Exploration of Food in Literature," attending Jan. 13-16.

FALL 2010

International Digital Publishing Conference and Forum, City University of London -- presentation: "Who’s Minding the Store? Shifting Paradigms of Authority in the Digital Publishing Arena," Dec. 15, 2010.

Media Ethics -- article: "The Tattered Cover: A Lion in Sheep’s Clothing," Fall 2010.

Publishing Research Quarterly – book review: Keri Walsh, “The Letters of Sylvia Beach,” Vol. 26, #3, September 2010.

SPRING 2010

PUBLISHING WORKSHOP -- Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, May 27-28 at SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

WINTER 2010

Oxford Companion to the Book – contributor, three articles on bookstores (Abebooks, eBay, Grolier Poetry Book Shop), 2010

SUMMER 2009

July 24, Great Barrington Appalachian Trail Community Designation Program, presentation about Benton MacKaye

July, essay "The Old Corner Bookstore: Rialto of Current Good Things, Hub of the Hub," in The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies

June 22-26, Conference: John Adams/​Thomas Jefferson: Libraries, Leadership, and Legacy, Boston and Charlottesville; sponsors: Massachusetts Historical Society and Monticello; presentation on Jefferson's Book Dealers.

SPRING 2009

Two essays (“Frey vs. Thoreau: Which Liar Tells More Truth?” Media Ethics, Fall 2008; “The Viswanathan Plagiarism Case at Little, Brown, Publishers,” International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 5, 2007) win The Rose Ethics in Communication Award, 2009, at Emerson College.

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING TELE-CLASSES - (five sessions) via www.academicladder.com. Open to grad students and professors.

FALL 2008

PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: University of Massachusetts - Boston, Nov. 7 & 8, 2008

NERCOMP Conference, "Teaching Well Using Technology: A Faculty Member’s Guide to Wise and Time-Efficient Use of Instructional Technology" -- University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Nov. 12, 2008

SPRING 2008

Interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now satellite-TV special program about Robert Kennedy, June 6, 2008.

WINTER 2008

PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, Jan. 17-18, 2008

FALL 2007

Southwest Review essay, "The Palmer Method: Penmanship and the Tenor of Our Time," wins McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Best Nonfiction, Essay, 2007

PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2007

SPRING 2007

Presentation: Thomas Jefferson and his Booksellers, Robert Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 9, 2007

FALL 2006

Conference: 4th International Conference on the Book, sponsored by Common Ground, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, October 20-22

The 4th International Conference on the Book was organized and directed, in October 2006, at Emerson College, Boston, by David Emblidge, working with Common Ground, Publishing.

SELECTED WORKS

Architecture / History / Engineering: Nonfiction
Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities
Ever wonder what goes on under the city streets? Find out here -- in twelve cites around the world. Water, transportation, commuications, buried history. Fascinating stories, fully illustrated.
Autobiography / History: Nonfiction
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936 - 1962
Mrs. Roosevelt wrote her column "My Day" six days a week for over a quarter of century, covering everything from politics to child rearing to the arts. Arthur Schlesinger called her "a remarkable woman." Indeed.
Outdoor Adventure / Literary Anthology
The Appalachian Trail Reader (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995)
A cornucopia of essays, journal entries, poems and more -- all about how America's most famous and oldest long hiking trail, from Georgia to Maine, was conceived and built, and how it is enjoyed by over four million people a year nowadays.
Outdoor Adventure: Trail Guides
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in Southern New England
260 miles of trails / 29 hikes / Close to New England villages or deep in a National Forest, inaccessible by roads, by a rushing river or over 4,000 ft Killington Mt.
Soup to Nuts
THE MISCELLANY
A link to Amazon.com, for David Emblidge, and all the books (70+) where I am either author, editor, contributor, or a subject named in the text. Happy hunting!
Thanksgiving in Toulouse
French Turkey
An American Thanksgiving in France, broadcast on WAMC, NPR, Northeast Public Radio