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Track Changes

A Literary History of Word Processing

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674417076

Publication Date: 05/02/2016

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

22 halftones

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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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At The Conversation, read Matthew Kirschenbaum’s argument that the advent of electronic word processing allowed writers to “grasp the manuscript as a whole, a gestalt”
Read the Atlantic’s in-depth interview with Kirschenbaum
At The Paris Review, read Kirschenbaum’s overview of the history of word processing, including photos of famous authors with their chosen devices
Read Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, and El Confidencial [in Spanish] interviews with Kirschenbaum
Listen to Kirschenbaum discuss a half-century of changes to word processing technology—and workflows—on Ohio Public Radio’s All Sides with Ann Fisher
Listen to an interview with Kirschenbaum on PW Radio, the podcast of Publishers Weekly
Read early coverage of the Track Changes project from the New York Times, Guardian, and Atlantic Wire
At the HUP Blog, read an exchange on the tools of literary production between Kirschenbaum and Hannah Sullivan, author of The Work of Revision
Listen to a 2011 lecture based on the book’s first chapter, presented by Kirschenbaum at the New York Public Library
Visit Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Track Changes Tumblr for materials related to the book

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