Dear Publisher, Excuse the impersonal greeting, but I am sending this along to quite a few of you bow-tied literary types and I really can’t be bothered looking up all your … Champagne ConfidentialRead more
Month: December 2021
Lessons from the Haberdashery
Some of the chief pleasures wine affords derive from its effects on the special, hyper-sensitive tissue that lines the inside of our mouths — grasping the lips, tongue and palate in a … Lessons from the HaberdasheryRead more
When Two Vowels Go Walkin’
the first one does the talkin’. Or so goes the rule we learned as novice readers. It’s why we pronounce ROAD as if it were RODE, and not RAID and why RAID rhymes with … When Two Vowels Go Walkin’Read more