Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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An online acquaintance (and subscriber to this series, for which I am, to be sure, grateful) shared this image with me today:
. . . which (a) made me sad, and (b) allows me to share with you, as/if perhaps you’ve never read it, an essay I...
oh, that
[Given that this essay includes more than a dozen footnotes, I remind you that you don’t have to violently scroll down and up and down and up to enjoy them; you can simply, depending on your particular reading gadget, hover over or click on...
I've got a little list.
I like a list as much as the next person does, but I daresay that posting the 100 best novels of all time published in English, as The Guardian has just done, in which “published in English” also includes translations into English is essent...
Mother Dreyer's Small Potatoes
[excerpted and adapted from a previous post]
A very happy Mother’s Day to all who observe!
In my Twitter days I’d occasionally recount some exploit of my mother’s, or a bit of her pleasingly brusque wisdom, and in doing so I took...
The Turn of the Phrase
When last we met, I was bemoaning that my thought well had run a bit dry and that all I had to serve up, to mix a couple of metaphors, was leftovers.
Today I find myself with perhaps a bit too much to say, but as I sort of feel like I owe...
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