I. M. Pei recently passed away, but not without leaving a legacy of several iconic buildings from around the world. + more
I. M. Pei recently passed away, but not without leaving a legacy of several iconic buildings from around the world. + more
After studying several instances of what we now call “spontaneous human combustion,” French agronomist Pierre-Aimé Lair (1769-1853) discovered that most + more
I’m out early tomorrow, so here’s an assignment and a recommendation, in that order: Caitrin Keiper’s “Do Elephants Have Souls?” + more
Remember that post I wrote three years ago about Irv Teibel and his Environments records? Of course you do. As + more
In a conversation about grammar and style over at Literary Hub, Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer were asked the number + more
One of my favorite books is The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson. The now-famous 1995 publication achieved + more
Richard Lehnert, Stereophile copyeditor for the last 34 years, is calling it quits. He wrote a short reflection at the + more
from THE MOWER Philip Larkin The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should + more
When people ask me what I do for a living, and I respond with, “I’m a writer,” there’s a 99.78 + more
I don’t normally post on Wednesdays.* But today’s special. First, there’s, um…this. Celebrate accordingly. It’s also Keith Jarrett’s birthday. One + more
Did you know that Theodor Geisel took his pen name – Dr. Seuss – from his mother’s maiden name? Neither + more
For Deadheads only: Robert Hunter, The Giant’s Harp, and a Terrapin multiverse? Just because: A stacked bar chart of the + more
“We are, all of us, office babies,” writes Madeleine Aggeler, “and exclamation points are the written equivalent of child-proof bumper + more