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Evan Swensen Flip, Don’t Scroll: The Fun Science Behind Paper Power
Back when I was young — before “screen time” entered the vocabulary — reading meant sitting by a window in …
Evan Swensen Writing Without Living Is Vanity
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau …
Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
Saban English Saban English is the local dialect of Caribbean English spoken on Saba, an island in the leeward chain …
Evan Swensen Gravity of a Single Word
It happened in a place so quiet, even paper turning felt like a disruption. The room, a modest university lecture …
Evan Swensen The Trouble With Words That Can’t Make Up Their Minds
Fun Trivia About the Words That Say One Thing — and the Opposite I live in a town where people …
Evan Swensen I don’t know
Wislawa Szymborska’s line—“Poets, if they’re genuine, must always keep repeating, ‘I don’t know’”—echoes the humility at the heart of both …
Carl Douglass The Young Coyote
The town of Cipher, Arizona was set twenty-seven miles back of the canyon rim that permits a striking view of …
Evan Swensen Measured by Letters, Remembered by Readers
In the English alphabet, each letter holds a position: A is 1, B is 2, C is 3, and so …
Evan Swensen Meet the World’s Fastest Reader
The Man Who Could Read a Book Over Lunch — and Dessert Too Every so often, a bit of trivia …
Evan Swensen Wit, Faith, and Fiction
“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams.” With these words, Muriel Spark pierced the …
Evan Swensen From Me to We
“How do I write a memoir both personal and universally relatable?” It’s a question often asked in quiet tones, almost …
Evan Swensen Scandal, Seduction, and Suicide
The First American Novel Was a Scandal America’s very first novel wasn’t a story of patriotism, politics, or pioneers. It …