An Old-Fashioned Rainy Day in NYC

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 10, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/386/an-old-fashioned-rainy-day-in-nyc

Excerpt:

We are so used to instant everything: instant food, instant news, that most of us do not know that it used to take anywhere from 12-24 months after an academic paper was accepted before it was actually published. It took a lot longer than that to research and write.

No, I am not a tree-hugger but yes, I still love the look, weight, heft, and smell of books: Old books, brand-new ones too. No, I don’t write long-hand anymore or on a typewriter, I do use a computer but yes, ’tis true, I do not own an ipod, blackberry, or kindle.

Therefore, on this very rainy day, I have been engaged in two very enjoyable projects.

I am doing the final revisions and additions for an academic paper that I’ve written about honor killings in the West which will be published at the end of February, about a year after I began the writing but about five years after I first began the research. And the thinking.

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