The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Christmas
Every Christmas, Laura Miller re-reads C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (More on her adventures in Narnia.)
Every Christmas, Laura Miller re-reads C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (More on her adventures in Narnia.)
“Word had turned him into a foodstuff: Professor Schnitzel.” In trying to correct errors, Word & Excel have created new ones.
The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (2nd Ed.) incorporates usage notes from an astonishing group of contributing authors, including Erin McKean, Stephin Merritt, Zadie Smith, Simon Winchester, Francine Prose, and David Foster Wallace. (Eternal disclosure.) Looking for something else last night, I discovered this entertaining note, signed “DFW & EM,” on “effete”: Here’s a word on which some dictionaries and useage . . .
The New Yorker recently made everything — from its very first issue to the latest — available to subscribers online. This means you can read Mark Twain’s “The Privilege of the Grave” right now. Although previously unpublished, the essay will be immediately recognizable as Twain’s to anyone who’s had even casual exposure to his nonfiction. Here’s a brief excerpt from . . .
Elizabeth Alexander has been named Obama’s inaugural poet. Read her fine poem “Blues” & listen to a recent podcast. (Via.)