The Impediments of Style: Advice from Steven Pinker and the CIA
Pinker is on a mission to remove the heckling usage purists from the back of the linguistics classroom.
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The Literature of the Standing Desk
The standing desk has entered its heyday. It’s changing the cubicle skyline of corporate America, the open-plan shared workspaces of the startup world, and the studios and work nooks of thousands of writers across the country.
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How Many Novelists are at Work in America?
Writing a novel is like starting a small business and investing thousands of hours without knowing exactly what it is you’re going to end up selling. It’s a leap of faith every time, even for someone who is five novels into a career.
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Where Is All the Fiction in Space?
There’s a smattering of poetry wending its way through space. But where’s the fiction drifting through the dark sea of ionized gas? Wouldn’t we send at least one Chekhov story?
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Letter of the Law: On J.D. Salinger, Unpublished Works, and US Copyright
Curiously, though, under all three sets of rules -- copyright, fair use, and most archive policies -- I am free to use my iPad to take good resolution images of unpublished manuscripts so long as I don't share them publicly. Who can say if this extends to the privacy of my own home where I might convert an unused closet into a Salinger shrine? Such is the fickleness of U.S. copyright law.
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