Category: Publications & Current Papers

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced

jwheeler1967 January 25, 2011

This past Saturday, the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced. Among the finalists are Johnathan Franzen for Freedom and Siddhartha Mukharjee for The Emperor of All Maladies. Along with the Pulitzer Prize (2010 winner, Tinkers by Paul Harding) and the Man Booker Prize (2010 winner, The Finkler Question by Harold Jacobson), the NBCC…

We Must Obarmate Against the Loss of Words…To Let Them Go Would be Venalia

jwheeler1967 November 16, 2010

Adopt a word. Save our language. Why save a word? Well, as the website savethewords.org argues, "90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words," yet there are "old words, wise words, [and] hard-working words...that once led meaningful lives [but] now lie, unused, unloved, and unwanted." The site draws you in with a…