Rebecca Hiscott
@rebeccahiscott
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Managing editor @stripepress, occasionally editing @worksinprogmag and writing Autofictions: https://t.co/ohx0SzQ9w0
London, UK
Joined February 2010
@patrickc I’ve been thinking about this in relation to proofreading. Slower proofreaders catch every single thing, but the project takes longer and costs more. Maybe there’s a point at which a good-enough proofread is good enough. (Though it goes against my word nerdery to even say this.)
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RT @lindaliukas: I got to have a discussion on @thecreativeindp with @rebeccahiscott on playgrounds, lineages, and only liking the sideques…
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I’ve thought about this a lot—there are a ton of topics that are compelling in longer-than-essay form but don’t require more than ±100 pages. (There’s no shame in being able to write succinctly!) If you have ideas in this vein for @stripepress let me and @_TamaraWinter know!
Wish there was a market for ~100-page books. Too many books are too long to be an essay, but don't have 300-400 pages of substance.
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RT @stripepress: Tulipmania was a bubble—but so was the Manhattan Project. Under the right conditions, @ByrneHobart and @TobiasAHuber argu…
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Works in Progress is looking for a managing editor. If you're a sharp writer, an even sharper editor, meticulously organized, and insatiably curious, I encourage you to apply. You'll be working with some of the most brilliant people I know.
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My writer-editor-friend David Wolinsky reported a very thoughtful oral history of a very dark time on the internet, and was kind enough to speak to me about it:
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RT @stripepress: Stripe Press is coming to Toronto! 📚 ☕ Stop by our pop-up coffee shop and bookstore at Carbonic Coffee on Baldwin St. for…
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@_TamaraWinter @thecreativeindp @jmechner Thank you! 💙 It was 100% inspired by your amazing interview in Paris.
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RT @devinjacoviello: new website with @narrowd & @trv_mcl for a new book by @ByrneHobart & @TobiasAHuber for @stripepress >
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RT @narrowd: Boom is a book about bubbles (and the end of stagnation) by @byrnehobart and @TobiasAHuber This a website about bubbles by @…
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Bubbles are bigger than tulips or Beanie Babies. In Boom, @byrnehobart and @tobiasahuber show how bubbles have been an underrated driver of innovation—including in the Manhattan Project, the Apollo program, and the semiconductor industry. Preorder 💥
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RT @s8mb: Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated. A new essay by @bswud, @SCP_Hughes & me. Why the UK's ban on investment in housing, inf…
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If you give @narrowd and @devinjacoviello an assignment, they're going to get an A+++
new website and math art for Stripe Dot Dev > there are many secrets, below i’ll reveal some of them
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On Ann Patchett’s symphonic “Bel Canto” and the Ben Nevis misadventure I can’t wait to repeat:
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@_TamaraWinter @dwarkesh_sp @karpathy @nayafia @_brianpotter @salonium Could not agree more. At this point it seems intuitive that the media that will survive and endure (especially wrt AI) is media that speaks to a specific audience and community (with the exception of a small handful of exceptionally high-quality general-purpose media).
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