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Word Counts in Novels (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Among the vast number of contradictory phenomena I don’t understand there is this: Why do Americans seem to have a decreasing attention span (witness the popularity of tweets and the fact that interest in…
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Union Square Farmers Market Encounter: Only in New York or is this a Paul Violi Poem? [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Woman: Do you have pullet eggs? Vendor: Yes. Woman: Great! I'll take some. Me: I'd like some too. Woman: Would you consider splitting a dozen? I live alone and half a dozen is just…
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The Cakes! (and other perks of writing in a restaurant) [Emily Deming, Writer-in-Residence at Mallard Cottage]
A Writer’s Residency in a restaurant involves, at times revolves around, food: fueled by it, inspired by it, writing about it. Part of the (verbal) contract arranged for this residency was a sort of…
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The Origin of “Cops” [by David Lehman]
How did the police acquire the nickname "cops"? 1) It's an acronym for the dread "Committee on Public Safety" that wreaked havoc during the French Revolution. 2) The initial shields worn by uniformed policemen…
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Meet the Press: Karen Schubert in Conversation with Kristen A. Elias Rowley of The Ohio State University Press
The Ohio State University Press KS: I live in northeast Ohio, and a few months ago I attended a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Kent State University Press. The Wick Poetry Center, at…
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Learning to Tell Tales: Memories/Fiction/Geology [by Emily Deming]
“The dust of an eroding planet and the tiny animalcules of the chalk are destined soon or late to entomb us all” – Loren Eisley (Introduction to T.H. Huxley’s On a Piece of Chalk,…
