Axis of evil in my baby book
I recently spent some time flipping through my baby book. It’s been quite enlightening. The best part about the baby book is that it was written by my mother, who…
Sometimes a book can speak directly to your heart
Stephen King, in On Writing, writes: "If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second to least of your concerns. The least of all: Polite society…
Cursive writing: Expendable?
I haven’t used cursive in years. Even my signature can hardly be called cursive. It’s more of an indecipherable scrawl. Other than the years I spent instructing my students in…
Great speech. Lousy bedside manner.
The late William Safire drafted a speech for President Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon. It’s a great speech. Truly great. But…
How does anyone keep with with this magazine?
The New Yorker offered me a 250% discount on a year's subscription, citing me as a "professional." Having ideas for stories I would like to publish in the magazine someday…
Credit to the copyeditor
Unexpectedly, Milo has entered the copyediting stage of production, in which some clever editor with a keen understanding of the English language, an outstanding eye for detail, and an unbiased…
A question of origin
When Darth Vader is chasing Luke Skywalker down the trench of the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, he notes that “the Force is strong with this one.”…
Subtitles be gone!
Robert McCrum of The Guardian recently called for a cease on using subtitles in books. He cited a newly published biography of William Golding, which includes the admittedly odd and…
Turkey for the win
My wife’s uncle and her cousin came to Connecticut to visit last weekend. My wife served sandwiches for lunch. Always looking to take care of me, she made me a…
When death interrupts the writing process
I passed the manuscript for Unexpectedly, Milo, onto a friend who has yet to read it. When I asked him what was taking so long to finish, he admitted that…
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