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Good Fiction, Anyone?

So no Pulitzer for fiction this year. What does that say about our best sellers? Anyone have a book(fiction) from 2011-2012 that they would recommend? Afraid I don’t know of any.

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Better than palindromes

Here is an interesting story from Robert Krulwich about Reading Upside Down If you’ve read Angels and Demons you’ve seen some of these and they are always fun. (I don’t think it is a coincidence that the cryptologist in the … Continue reading

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A short story

Unfortunately no attribution.

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Nobody said they are GOOD books.

Take a look at this graph from The Atlantic and notice how reading rates have improved over the past 50 years. This data predates ebook growth. I suspect the numbers would be higher today. Gallup data here Link to The … Continue reading

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Rant

The word is WHOA. I don’t care how many times you’ve seen it on the internet as woah or whoah, you are wrong if you spell it that way. So stop it.

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Making a living with poetry

I heard this on NPR. Read the story here:Poem store

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Cinnamon? Or downhill?

Per Huffington Post 4/20/2012 “Romney: Santorum Still Has ‘Major Roll’ in GOP.”

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Hopefully, the Strunk fans can get over this.

“Surely you are joking,” the grammarian said hopefully. AP now accepts the modern usage of hopefully. Check out the article for a cute discussion between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist.

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Five year old post and still true

Let us now praise editors They may be invisible and their art unsung. But in the age of blogging, editors are needed more than ever.

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Accidental Coinage

From an op-ed piece on American childbirth practices; Too many women end up having an appeasiotomy. I’m guessing that’s the surgery you  have to placate the doctor.

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