Category: words

“The collection’s oldest English-language newspaper title was published in Amsterdam in 1620 and covered news from Italy, Germany and Bohemia.”

“I completely forgot to check my mailbox for a good two weeks. But I had a lovely, unexpected surprise when I checked it twenty minutes ago – a perfect addition to Valentine’s Day; there’s nothing more poetic than sharing your handwriting the good, old fashioned way with a good, old friend.”

“In the real world, dukes are thin on the ground: Generally, there are fewer than thirty — but it’s more than rarity that makes dukes so wildly popular: They’re just downright sexy.”

“Forensic scientists say the ground and walls of the oldest part of the convent would be the focus of the search, using ground-penetrating equipment to map objects under the earth.”

Roxane Gay: “I think it’s very similar to why we watch reality television. We want to see people open themselves up and we want to see where they’ll take that openness.”

“As a reader, I am fickle, promiscuous and easily distracted. Sitting at home, I can’t concentrate for the pull of text messages and emails.”

“So…are the barbarians pounding down the doors of America’s libraries? Not hardly. A grand total of 307 challenges to the books on the Top 10 list and others like them were reported to the ALA last year. That’s chump change in a country of 318 million people.”

A new literary diaspora has taken shape, propelled, as Isabelle de Courtivron has written in “Lives in Translation: Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity,” by “immigration, technology, postcolonialism and globalization,” powerful forces that have “dissolved borders and increased cross-cultural mobility.”

“Cristóbal Pera, editorial director of Penguin Random House Mexico, said that García Márquez’s family has not yet decided whether to allow the book to come out posthumously, or which publishing house would get the rights.”