Proceeding with images | The Employee by Joshua Schwebel

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 5:30 AM

Hi Josh,

I’m really glad that this occurred to us in that meeting!

I would like to proceed by trying to bundle the next round of edits in with image suggestions, so that Mariane and Marina are only dealing with one more close look at their texts.

This means that I need to go through both texts and 1) format the citations, and 2) do a complete copy edit, 3) find places to suggest images.

I think that the best time for me to do this will be on this flight to Vancouver - so I can get it to them early August.

I believe that we landed on a maximum of 5 images per essay - is that right?

Do you also want to go through and suggest images?

Let me know what you think,

Lauren

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 5:49 AM

hi Lauren,

yes, I agree it was a good and timely realization!

I think that your plan makes sense. I would also like to go through the texts and locate / suggest images, if that is alright with you.

5 maximum does seem adequate. I have to say, though, that I am entirely unfamiliar with the process of requesting permissions for image reproduction. Do you know how that works?

I have been working this morning on the first-person narrative, and the interview. I keep working on them a bit in parallel because I want to avoid redundancies, and I think that the first person narrative is close to being done, although there are a couple of factual assertions that I need to back up with references, and I am a bit unsure where to find this information. In any case, I think that this text is also ready to "submit" to you for a read-over. Is that okay with you? I also want to put images in, so maybe that is a next round task as well.

here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/#redacted

Further, I wrote to Teresa last week to check in on a couple things, mostly to strategize about some of the more sensitive emails between us regarding hiring decisions (pros and cons between potential employees, which I am unsure about publishing, if only to avoid the harsher parts of our process embarrassing the applicants in question), but also to begin commissioning the introduction. She hasn't responded, so I will get back on that. I would like to request a draft from her by, say the end of September, if that seems realistic to you.

I am going to continue reaching out to email interlocutors and hopefully get more permission :)

I also hope to finish transcribing the conversation, and then to try to edit it down, which is a major job in itself that I have been kind of avoiding.

That's all that I can think of for now!

onwards,