Interning in two different departments is giving me a one of a kind taste for the wide variation a publisher the size of Penguin has to offer as an employer. Half of my week I spend with the Editorial Department for Penguin Classics, whose black spine editions I spent so much time with during my career as an English major, and the other half I spend with the Penguin Speakers Bureau, who handle author events at conferences and universities for contemporary authors like Katherine Stockett ( The Help) and Charlaine Harris ( True Blood). The work I do at my internship is actually split between two departments. Sigma Tau Delta’s generous stipend helped me find a great place to land thanks to NYU’s summer intern housing I’m lucky enough to be in Manhattan, nestled in between some amazingly delicious food in Chinatown to the east, SoHo’s shopping to the north, and posh TriBeCa to the west. I had completed a previous internship at the University Press of Kentucky that I loved, and which introduced me to the vocabulary of the publishing world and let me know for certain that publishing is where I want to make my career. Little more than a month ago I took a one-way flight to New York from my home state of Kentucky, after graduating from the University of Kentucky just a few short weeks before. My nerd brain is constantly screaming at me at top volume, “This is so cool!” Five weeks ago, I found myself sitting at my very own desk at the American arm of the publishing giant, assisting the people responsible for publishing the edition of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that my professor and Sigma Tau Delta Chapter Sponsor assigned my American Literature class several semesters ago. That little penguin, which founder Allen Lane called “dignified but flippant,” marks the spines of a good chunk of my personal library today. Growing up, before I became attuned to what the insignia on book spines that demarcated publishing houses were, I still knew who Penguin was. Penguin Group (well I guess now it’s Penguin Random House-not Random Penguin as half the industry had cheekily hoped) is one of the largest publishers in the world.
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