Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

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Antonine Plague

Colonialism

Pax Romana

Cosmology

Roman Empire

Rāmāyaṇa

Forgiveness

Christianity

Multiple Universes

Consciousness

Philosophical Skepticism

Materialism

Translation

Public Health

Economy

China

Global Economy

Dharma

Shadow Empires

Military Power

A series of interviews with authors of new books from Princeton University Press

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Publishes	Daily	Episodes	761	Founded	5 years ago
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Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well. Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers (Princeton U... more

9 Oct 2025 • 54 min

Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)

How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteent... more

4 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 9 min

Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics (Princeton ... more

27 Sep 2025 • 1 hr 5 min

Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)

The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton Uni... more

18 Sep 2025 • 1 hr 4 min

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Dr. Laura Portwood-Stacer

Author of 'Make Your Manuscript Work', developmental editor and publishing consultant

Manuscript Works

Episode: Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

Georgios Varouxakis

Professor of History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University of London

Episode: Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Mark Vellend

Professor of Biology at Université des Sherbrooke and author of Everything Evolves

Princeton University Press

Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Dr. Jack Hartnell

An art historian specializing in the intersection of art and medical history.

Princeton University Press

Episode: Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Celene Reynolds

Assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Unlawful Advances

Princeton University Press

Episode: Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Professor David Woodman

Historian at Robinson College, Cambridge, specializing in early medieval history

Robinson College, Cambridge

Episode: David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)

David Edmonds

Philosopher and author of Death in a Shallow Pond

Princeton University Press

Episode: David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Joshua Specht

Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame and author

Princeton University Press

Episode: Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Margaret Roberts

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

Episode: Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)

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Caleb Zakarin

Editor of the New Books Network, curating scholarly discussions and interviews with authors.

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 31 ratings

Audio awful!
Great podcast, but the audio is absolutely horrible!
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a bit of stardust
United States5 months ago
Broad range of interviews
Always something interesting. He needs a better microphone.
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mondomando🍺
United States3 years ago
Brilliant and rich conversations
These are accessible discussions for any curious listener. I love the length, it leaves you feeling enriched. The authors are brilliant.
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Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

Q: Can you unpack what we mean by a portable argument and how you make it portable?

You want your argument to explain not just the relationship between two things, but how and why it has an impact, making it useful for other scholars beyond your specific topic.

Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

Q: What does it mean that you need to do this manuscript development before you submit it to the publishers? How do you know that you're not ready?

A first draft is for the writer. You might think it's great, but if you want to engage publishers' interest, you need to check your manuscript against the four scholarly pillars: argument, evidence, structure, and style.

Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

Q: What do you mean by mission?

I mean, why are you writing this book? It's important to know why you're doing that to keep you motivated and help you decide what investments you need to make in the project.

Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: How did the First World War expose contradictions in the idea of Western civilization?

The conflict highlighted divisions and shifted perceptions of the West, particularly with the Germans asserting a cultural superiority that conflicted with Western identity.

Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: What were some of the reasons that Britain was first resisted from being automatically called part of the West?

The West was initially conceived by French and German thinkers; it was not until later that the British began to identify with this notion.

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