Tracking slang usage with Twitter
Twitter maps U.S. language use, traces colloquialisms and slang to different geographical regions.
Twitter maps U.S. language use, traces colloquialisms and slang to different geographical regions.
I’ll be introducing Marie Mockett when she reads this Friday, May 21, along with the young writers of Girls Write Now, as part of our Chapters series at the Center for Fiction. Her novel, Picking Bones From Ash, was recently shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize and is concerned with the unique power and difficulties of talented girls. “There must . . .
Is it possible to appreciate American literature fully if you don’t know the King James Bible? Adam Kirsch considers Robert Alter’s Pen of Iron.
What did Jesus do?: Gopnik on the never-ending effort to separate “the inspiration from the intolerance, nice Jesus from nasty Jesus.”
My former professor H. Aram Veeser discusses his new biography, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, 5/19. See also Veeser’s recollection of their first meeting (last item).