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  1. Blog Du Jour

     Frank McCourt: Teacher, Storyteller
    Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    The passing of Frank McCourt, high school writing teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist, has occasioned the sharing of many fond memories online.

    Artsbeat (N.Y. Times)

    Book Bench (New Yorker)

    Salon Books

    Jacket Copy (L.A. Times)

  2. Word Routes

     The Avuncular Anchorman
    Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In the outpouring of remembrances since the passing of Walter Cronkite on Friday, two polysyllabic words beginning with "a" have proved to be inextricably linked to "the most trusted man in America": avuncular and anchorman. It's hard to describe Mr. Cronkite without using one or the other, or preferably both.

  3. Dog Eared

     Remembering Frank McCourt
    Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Frank McCourt, the Irish-American schoolteacher whose poignant memoirs earned him a Pulitzer Prize, has passed away at the age of 78. He leaves behind a gripping set of life stories.

    Angela's Ashes

    'Tis

    Teacher Man

  4. Blog Excerpts

     The Jane Austen Monster Mash Continues
    Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Surely the most unexpected success in the literary world this year has been Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, a campy mashup pitting Jane Austen's Bennet sisters against legions of the undead. Since its publication in April, P&P&Z has sold more than 600,000 copies, inspiring a number of other zombified takes on classic literature. Now comes word that the publisher of P&P&Z, Quirk Books, is cashing in on the trend with a new title, Sense and Sensibility and (wait for it) Sea Monsters.

  5. Word Routes

     Know Your Nunchucks!
    Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    An odd moment in this week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor came when Senator Orrin Hatch questioned her about a case involving martial arts weapons commonly known in English as "nunchucks" or "nunchuck sticks." The exchange between Hatch and Sotomayor sounded like something you might encounter at a Bruce Lee fan club meeting, not in a high-profile Senate hearing.

  6. Word Count

     The Crossword is Dead, Long Live the Crossword
    Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Reports of the demise of the crossword puzzle have been greatly exaggerated, says Visual Thesaurus puzzlemaster Brendan Emmett Quigley. Brendan — whose puzzles appear regularly in the New York Times, Paste, and The Onion, as well as on his own blog — responds to the latest doom and gloom about the future of crosswords with a note of optimism. Far from being a crossword-killer, Brendan argues, the Web is attracting bigger audiences to puzzle-solving than ever before.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Infinite Summer
    Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Matthew Baldwin has challenged fiction lovers to spend this summer reading the late David Foster Wallace's gargantuan novel Infinite Jest. Think you're up to reading 1,079 pages of Wallace's inimitable prose? Join in on Baldwin's blog, Infinite Summer.

  8. Department of Word Lists

     All-Star Words
    Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    We've been talking to Paul Dickson about the new edition of his magnum opus, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. Now, in honor of Major League Baseball's 80th All-Star Game, played tonight at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, we present some all-star words from Dickson's dictionary.

  9. Contest Corner

     Six Degrees of the Visual Thesaurus
    Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this month's contest, we challenge you to use the Visual Thesaurus to link two words together by clicking on the fewest number of related words. Entrants who can connect the words summer and break through the fewest number of words will receive a limited edition Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  10. Wordshop

     Walk This Way!
    Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Teachers, looking to get students out of their seats and learning some new words? Try introducing pantomime as a vocabulary-enriching activity. As Beck, McKeown and Kucan point out in Creating Robust Vocabulary, "physically responding to words can promote connections to new word meanings."
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