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  1. Backstory

     Kim Reid, Author of No Place Safe: A Family Memoir
    Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2008
    When I began No Place Safe: A Family Memoir, I didn't expect it to be a memoir at all. It was going to be me telling my mother's story of being a cop on a 1980s serial murder investigation. New to nonfiction, I wasn't sure if it should be a biography or a true crime story. Interviewing my mother helped me figure out exactly what story I was going to be telling. I also spent time looking through a box of files, notes and pictures she kept about the case, expecting someone eventually would write about it. She had hoped it would be me, but I resisted for years because I was a novelist, though I hadn't yet sold a novel.

  2. Word Count

     The Politics of Writing: Should You Use Skunked Terms?
    Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    Decimate. Literally. Hopefully. These words, and others like them, provoke so much ire in some readers that they become troublesome to use. Critics feel that the writer is using the word in an unauthorized way, that it's being using to mean what it does not mean.

  3. Word Count

     "Climate" Change: Weathering a Climax
    Tue Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    An extension of a federal highway program passed the House recently, over the objections of some Democrats. "Even as they were approving the measure in an anti-climatic voice vote, Democrats sharply criticized Republicans for not accepting a two-year, $109 billion version of the transportation measure the Senate had approved on a bipartisan vote earlier this month," one news report said.

  4. Language Lounge

     Unexpected Cousins
    Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    The relations among words are not so different from those among people. It's not unusual for, say, first cousins to bear no obvious resemblance to each other, but if we examine their DNA we find that they have a grandparent in common.

  5. Teachers at Work

     Teaching Words in Context
    Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2008
    When Bob Greenman taught high school journalism and English in Brooklyn, NY, public schools he found himself turning to the New York Times for more than just the news. "I had the kids work on vocabulary from the paper," the 30-year veteran educator explains. "It's peerless for vocabulary acquisition, even better than reading classic fiction." That experience inspired Bob to put together a book called Words That Make a Difference, a compendium of vocabulary words with contextual examples from the New York Times, and another one he co-authored with his wife Carol, this time with examples from the Atlantic Monthly magazine. We spoke to Bob about his practical approach to teaching vocabulary.

  6. Language Lounge

     A Recipe for Time Travel
    Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    I was delighted to learn recently of The Sifter - A Food History Research Tool, which is a gigantic online database of historical cookbooks. What I've been doing in The Sifter initially is a kind of time travel via language.

  7. Word Routes

     Here's to Your Wellness
    Fri Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    For this Sunday's "Health and Wellness" issue of The New York Times Magazine, I've contributed an "On Language" column looking at how we all started talking about wellness (as opposed to health) in the first place. The word has had an odd trajectory: from an occasional antonym of illness dating back to the 17th century, to an uneasy label for preventive and holistic approaches to health in the '70s and '80s, to an established element of our linguistic landscape in the '90s and beyond.

  8. Word Routes

     A Far-Fetched Etymology That Seems a Little Cockamamie
    Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2015
    Etymology can take some peculiar turns as a word criss-crosses different cultures. For the latest installment of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast, I take the hosts along on the journey of the word cockamamie, which might seem stranger than fiction.

  9. Backstory

     Elizabeth Ridley, author of "Dear Mr. Carson"
    Sat Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2007

    I always knew that someday I would write a novel starring Johnny Carson. I first fell in love with the king of late-night TV in the autumn of 1972. I was six years old and had just started first grade. Because I was now officially a "student," my parents moved me into my own bedroom, complete with a wooden desk and a 13" black-and-white TV set with rabbit-ears antenna and a plastic knob for changing the channels.

  10. Lesson Plans

     "To be or not to be" and the VT
    Mon Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2007
    Although Hamlet's "to be or not to be" question is probably the most recognizable in the English language, few students understand its full meaning in the context of Hamlet's situation. In this lesson, students are asked to recite, analyze and then adapt this famous monologue with the aid of the Visual Thesaurus.
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