For nearly all of my professional writing life, part of my job has included editing others’ work. During that time + more
For nearly all of my professional writing life, part of my job has included editing others’ work. During that time + more
Speaking of Charlie Watts (you didn’t think I’d let his death pass without saying something, did you?), I think Jack + more
With all the terrible stuff in the news of late—Afghanistan, COVID, the death of Charlie Watts—it’s worth remembering the words + more
Want to measure your “verbal creativity”? Got four minutes? You’re in luck. The Divergent Association Task is a quick measure + more
“My chief complaint against some practitioners of heavy metal guitar from the early 70s through the early 80s,” writes guitarist + more
A malaphor, according to Wiktionary, is a blend of malapropism and metaphor; “an error in which two similar figures of speech + more
This is your daily reminder that premises, when referring to a tract of land together with its buildings, is already + more
Workers aren’t working in Wyoming. (Including proofreaders, it seems.) Behold! A 100-tweet thread about Friedrich Schlegel! Here’s an unrolled version + more
The Internet is awash with terrible, terrible things, e.g. university websites, totalitarian millennials, and TikTok influencers. But sometimes—sometimes—a guy can + more
From the diary of James Lees-Milne, August 10, 1945: I had to lunch with Charles Fry my publisher at the + more
From John McWhorter’s delightful Nine Nasty Words, we learn the origin of one of my all-time faves: shit. English ultimately + more
Over at the Literary Review, Adrian Tinniswood reviews James Fox’s The World According to Colour: A Cultural History, in which + more
Things I learned while paging through the Oregonian today: (1) Our neighbors to the south need instruction on how to + more
The term groupies entered the lexicon around 1965; four years later, both Rolling Stone and Time covered the topic extensively + more
With the news of the ZZ Top bassist’s untimely death, I reckon the appropriate way to mourn is to mix + more