December 2010
31 posts
Off the record →
bobulate:
Chuck Klosterman interviews Jonathan Franzen on an Acela between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.:
… I allow him to give his answer off the record. During the three minutes my recorder is off, he provides one of the most straightforward, irrefutable, and downright depressing answers I’ve ever experienced in an interview. His posture relaxes. His language simplifies. Nothing is...
“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via liquidnight)
Home for Wandering Words →
teachingliteracy:
I listen to NPR. My NPR station plays the BBC. I heard a story the other day that just broke my heart. There’s a list of 24 words that are going to be cut from the Collin’s English Dictionary due to lack of use. If it were several hundred, that would be one thing-I understand that new words are born everyday, and that old words must make room for new words, and that’s just part...
“The mark of a good book is that you’re happy to come home to it. The mark of a...”
– Derek Thompson, associate editor - The Atlantic on The Best Book I Read This Year (via lanipauli)