I don’t know about you but I cannot recall the last time I have used a semicolon in my writing. If and when I did use that venerable but often abused punctuation mark, I am convinced I must have employed it inappropriately. I am grateful therefore for this timely article in the New York Times. Celebrating the Semicolon [...]
January 20, 2008
I have been overdosing on tech news lately so I am trying to redress the balance by returning to a mainstream news diet: 1) The feelgood factor | Economist.com The Economist has an in-depth special report on corporate social responsibility– the good, the bad and the ugly. Observations include the emergence of the corporate version [...]
January 15, 2008
I like to share a poem once in a while on this blog because poetry remains my first true love. This poem by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski in the New Yorker is a poignant allegory of communism in decline. Old Marx: Poetry: The New Yorker In the poem, an aged Marx mourning the lost cause of his youth [...]
December 1, 2007
In an era where even TV is becoming passe, I find it real cool that the National Book Critics Circle has its own blog. http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com The web seems to be a perfect means to spread the word about a good book. Now the NBCC blog is asking award-winning novelists, historians, poets, critics and biographer to vote for their [...]
February 18, 2008