January 2011
19 posts
“Note that we’re not just developing more formats and distribution channels for...”
– Quoting myself, shamelessly, from What’s the Future of Reading & Writing?
“… people who criticize the passive the most tend to use it more than the rest of...”
– Language Log » The passive in English
“In bits and pieces they had been re-written, put aside, and re-written again,...”
– Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War | Culture | Vanity Fair
“In Wallace, the young scholar saw a writer who, Joyce-like, “could connect...”
– The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“It’s disrespectful to let writing’s constituent elements bleed into one another...”
– From everyone has a right to their beliefs at Manifest Destiny — a response to Farhad Manjoo’s widely discussed polemic against using two spaces after sentences.
By the way, I’m a devout one-spacer — not because I’m particular about rules, but because it delights me to...
“While a lot of stellar narrative nonfiction also leaves room for readers or...”
– Harvey Smith on environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: “It has to be possible to miss some things to make finding them meaningful” – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
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“Still, the general path “blood libel” took over the past few days shines some...”
– “Blood libel”: How language evolves and spreads within online worlds » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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“Perhaps because of his unusual mind, he had a knack for writing sentences that...”
– Nicholas Carr Reviews Douglas Coupland’s “Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing Of My Work!” | The New Republic
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“Let’s have a toast for the fruit snacks
Let’s have a toast for the crab roe...”
– Grab A Plate (via noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour)
“I will politically haunt you for the biggest fumble in the history of San...”
– I love that exquisitely thoughtless use of stock language.
Via officialssay:
Chris Daly, an outgoing member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, yelling at a colleague because he disagreed with his vote on who should serve as interim mayor of San Francisco.
(Submitted by rubenfeld)
“Train cases, blue lung, marines uniform underwear, correct pronunciation of...”
– “Things I Have Needed to Google While Writing Poems to Turn Into My MFA Workshop,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. (via laphamsquarterly)