Sarah Osment
@sm_osment
Works at UChicago. Freelance editor & indexer. Views my own. She/her.
Hi all: my fall editorial calendar is booked up but I'm currently taking clients for indexing and developmental editing for winter 2024. I don't yet have a website so I thought I'd do a brief thread with some recent titles I've worked on:
When I do book events for Fake Work people often ask: what's our moment's Y2K/dot.com bubble? I always answer, AI
I think there's still more than a chance that AI is overhyped as a world-altering technology and the mega-expansion looks silly in a decade, if not sooner
Extremely important to recognize that Trump is the excuse, not the cause
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Happy pub day to @SandTClassics edition of Poe’s NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM — featuring an afterword by me & @RezekJoe! And pls join us at Harvard Bookstore on Monday where we will continue the conversation and I will reveal the next iteration of my thematic hairdo.
OPEN THE FUCKING GATES
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and…
at Brown he was known by some as Eyebrow, wonder if that made it in
This is the premise for Ben Lerner's next novel, which is supposed to be out in April 2026
If professional objectivity means journalists can't speak out about Israel starving a million children in Gaza, can they at least speak out about the starving of their fellow journalists?
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
It’s the posting of someone desperate to save their rep after angering their base. Good.
no one should ever be posting like this lol
cowardly cowardly shit theguardian.com/education/2025…
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
6000 @UNRWA trucks waiting at the border to feed those hungry babies, those hungry mamas and babas, those hungry kittens on the street. 6000 trucks could feed them for three months. But your tax dollars won’t let that happen.
Journalists, politicians, university presidents and writers have debated what "intifada" means for almost two years. But from the beginning, Israel was saying "human animals," was promising starvation. If it has been a question of language, it meant what it sounded like it meant.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
"Goble’s brilliant analyses show how slow motion is 'the dream work' technology that stretches and makes perceptible a catastrophic history in the making." -- Jennifer Fay Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20% on DOWNTIME, by Mark Goble. tinyurl.com/y7pc948d. @columbiaup
“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIzEN…
