Our world is always full of unexpected lacunae, gaps and hollows that we don’t know are there until we step into one. We twist our ankle, and sit down and…Continue readingStory Friday: What The Bee Knows
Someone just found my website, apparently by using the search string “Secrets of Jin Shei Film”. Aw. Bless you for your faith and confidence, whoever you are. And oh,…Continue readingFilming Jin-shei
Greg Ross writes at Futility Closet that Noam Chomsky once offered the expression Colorless green ideas sleep furiously as an example of a sentence that’s perfectly grammatical but is pure…Continue readingColorless green ideas
The following story by Linda Grant about culling her library in a move, fills me with superstitious fear. I go to my own shelves and gaze upon them, trail possessive…Continue reading‘I have killed my books’
— in theory and in practice An animated video features an 81-second TED-Ed lesson called “Lessons from Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words.” Watch it (link below), but the gist…Continue readingThe power of words …
F. Scot Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda battled depression and led lives that eventually spun out of their control. They weren’t the only writers on that list, Cody Delistraty writes…Continue readingWhy are writers depressed?
The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada In the mid-1990s, there were approximately 120 feminist bookstores in the U.S. and several in Canada, Anjali Enjeti reports at…Continue readingOnly 13 left?
Elmore Leonard had ten rules for writing. 1) Never open a book with the weather. 2) Avoid prologues. 3) Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4)…Continue readingThe rules, the rules!
Every week, 2 anonymous students sneak into a classroom and proceed to blow everyone’s mind. DangerDust At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two rogue college students are creating…Continue readingAstounding graffiti