Listen to author George Saunders talk about his new short-story collection Tenth of December, his writing process, what it’s like to be a guest on The Colbert Report, and much more: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab George Saunders is having a good 2013 so far. The…
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George Saunders is Live at Politics and Prose, a new Slate podcast. - Slate Magazine
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The second presidential debate, Romney’s binders full of women, and Libya on the Gabfest. - Slate Magazine
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the town hall brawl, the fight over what happened in Libya, and Mitt Romney’s efforts to win women voters. http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2012/10/the_second_presidential_debate_romney_s_binders_full_of_women_and_libya.html
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Lexicon Valley: resolving authorship controversies in the federalist papers and the wizard of oz - Slate Magazine
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 14: “By Their Words You Shall Know Them.” Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Is it possible that your writing style is identifiably unique? In the late 1800s, a Polish philosopher named Wincenty Lutosławski imagined a “future science of stylometry,”…
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Lexicon Valley: The role of language in Scrabble. - Slate Magazine
Does Scrabble in fact celebrate language? Or does it merely reduce English to a set of mathematical symbols and probability calculations? In the final episode of our first series of Lexicon Valley podcasts, I talk to Word Freak author and competitive Scrabble player Stefan Fatsis about how a math game disguised as a word game nevertheless unlocks the essential beauty of the English language.
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Lexicon Valley: What it means for a language to have grammatical gender. - Slate Magazine
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 8: When Nouns Grew Genitals Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Languages all across the world have what’s called grammatical gender, which means simply that nouns get divvied up into different categories or “classes.” Sometimes those…