Tag Archives: The New Yorker

A podcast discovery for summer road trips

Podcasts get me through long drives or flights, and I’ve been taking a lot of trips lately—too many to be entertained simply by the once-weekly Slate Culture Gabfests or monthly(ish) Audio Book Clubs that I usually listen to. While prowling iTunes for … Continue reading

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Weekly links

There was a lot of buzzing about the Newbery and Caldecott winners this week, especially because 2011 was the first year both awards went to a debut author or illustrator (not to mention the snub on The Today Show). Some … Continue reading

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It’s National Punctuation Day (!!)

Today is the 7th annual National Punctuation Day. According to a column in the Seattle Times, the day was founded in 2004 as “a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, … Continue reading

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Best of the blogs

What interesting blog posts have you read this week? A few of my favorites include. . . The Happy Ghost Posted by Bill Morris on The Millions If you’ve ever been curious about ghostwriters (“publishing’s dirty little secret“), then you … Continue reading

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