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June 3, 2016 Friday Fun / Literary Arts Series

James Thurber Cartoon: “I’m So Glad You’re a Writer…”

While doing research for the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber post,  I wanted

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June 2, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

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June 1, 2016 punctuation / Word(Less) Wednesday

Word(Less) Wednesday : Punctuation

May 31, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

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May 30, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – John Steinbeck and Dorothy Parker

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

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May 27, 2016 Fact-Checking

Fact-Check Friday

If you came looking for some words of wisdom, I’m hiding in the lab doing Science Fact-Checking. Did you know

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May 26, 2016 Language / Science / Words

The Brain Dictionary [+ Video]

A groundbreaking new study from the Gallant Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley is transforming how scientists understand language

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May 25, 2016 Grammar / Word(Less) Wednesday

Word(Less) Wednesday: Affect vs. Effect

May 25, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

Quote of the Day: Richard Wright

  The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as

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May 23, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde

 There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do

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May 19, 2016 Editor's Toolkit / Language / Writing

The Editor’s Toolkit: OneLook Reverse Dictionary

Have you ever been stuck for a word?  The meaning is clear in your head, but you can’t grasp the

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May 16, 2016 Editor's Toolkit / punctuation

The Editor’s Toolkit: The Punctuation Guide

Do you ever wonder what really goes on behind the scenes and on the screens of an editor? How many

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