Archive for May, 2008

BEA Dispatch

Purdy, Director of Publicity, is in LA this weekend at Book Expo America. He will be reporting from the action for those of us left in NYC.
Live from the convention floor of BEA in LA. For those not in the know BEA stands for Book Expo America, the largest convention of publishers, media, bookstore [...]

Friday Procrastination: Link Love

What Rebecca has been reading.

Talking About Girls

Is it different when girls get hurt?

Buckle up your mirdle! Euphemisms from heck

Mark Peters looks at euphemisms.

Waiting for Petrichor

Ammon Shea, an expert dictionary reader, reflects on rain.

Hypochondriac – Podictionary Word of the Day

 
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Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems

An excerpt from ‘Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poetry’ by Janet Gezari.

On Marriage

Edward Zelinsky suggests that a free market in religion has made Americans a religious people, and therefore, a competitive market for marriage would strengthen marriage by unleashing the entrepreneurial energies of groups promoting their own models of marriage.

Monthly Gleanings

Questions for the month are answered.

Congressional Testimony:
Homeland Security Subcommitee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment

Amos N. Guiora on the importance of sharing information in preventing terrorist attacks.

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