I'm just gonna be real and say as a Mexican student at Harvard whose parents didn't go to college who hung out with primarily Latine students of similar backgrounds that the people least qualified to attend imho were the legacies and the rowers.
Another editorial job in publishing has gone to a private-school-and-Oxbridge-educated person. Good luck to them, genuinely. But at least one working-class person applied for that job, and I wonder how many did? Publishing, diversity is only diversity if it actually happens.
@getreadinghomie It depends. I think if thereโs constraints on the review, like the publisher wants it done by a particular date or if the publisher uses my post for their promo, yes, maybe. But otherwise no, I do it because I love to read and find people with similar opinions โบ๏ธ
@kesp@orionbooks Do you know if a similar opportunity is being offered in the U.S. as well? Iโve been trying and failing for years at a chance in publishing ๐ฎโ๐จ