By Liza Monroy | Jan 22, 2021
Nicholas Dames, coeditor of the new Rereadings series from Columbia University Press, would like to counter the notion that academic presses don’t publish appealing writing: “There’s a wealth of great academic writers who get shut out because of default suspicion about academics and scholars as writers.”
In fact, those who lack the time, resources, or inclination to matriculate can look to Columbia and other university presses for quick, immersive takes on various collegiate subjects intended to engage as well as educate.
For the Rereadings series, contributors revisit personally meaningful, post-1970s novels. Inspired by Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, in which writers each obsess over a single album, Rereadings which also reboots the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers series of the 1960s and ’70s launched in January with