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(Photo by Jimmy Katz)
It’s words, words, words… words that won’t come out, words officially and unofficially chosen as Word of the Year, words of wisdom from a teacher trying to explain war, and the unreliable words of Alice Furlaud, who’s caught wind of a very unusual royal wedding.
People’s (Word) Choice
Last week the American Dialect Society voted “Weapons of Mass Destruction” as Word of the Year. Dean finds the choice less than inspiring, and goes on the offensive with the help of writer Steve Almond and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. On the defense: Michigan State University Professor of Linguistics ...
Speech Acts
Chris Schell has had a stutter since he was a kid. He came to New York City to lose it. Writer and medical student Rachel Sobel follows Chris through a three-week program at the American Institute for Stuttering, and then goes back to his rural Pennsylvania home with him, where ...
A Writer’s Voice
Nature writers rely heavily on words, as well as on sight. At different periods in his adult life, essayist Edward Hoagland has had limited access to one or the other. He joins Dean in a conversation about writing, stuttering, and blindness.
Teaching for Troubled Times
When even the President has a hard time explaining why a war against Iraq is necessary, how can a teacher be expected to do so in terms that make sense to a classroom of 12 year olds? Dean talks with Bob Peterson about the challenges of teaching in these complex ...
What Kids Used to Sound Like
Music and sounds from Folkway Records’ “Street Games and Songs of the Children of New York City.” Recorded by veteran radio producer Tony Schwarz in 1953.
Spinning Records
A walk in the park. Two happy dogs, piles of snow, and black shiny discs everywhere. It’s an installment from Washington, DC writer Katie Davis’s series, Neighborhood Stories.
A Proper Wedding
Rumor has it that the son of a British duke is to wed a humble yet handsome croupier from Las Vegas. At least that’s what our usually unreliable narrator Alice Furlaud says. And she’s been very busy figuring out protocol for what may turn out to be the first gay ...
Chow Howl
Chowhound Jim Leff’s mid-life crisis over the hand-cut-chicken-cut-fried-home-noodle-fried-chicken-cut-home-noodle-chicken fry at a Chinese restaurant in Flushing, NY.
Possible Fireworks
Jazz bassist Ben Allison was offered the chance to perform with anyone he could think of, but with one caveat: No rehearsing. And so just minutes after jazz clarinetist Don Byron and drummer Michael Sarin showed up at Bric Studio this past week, they went on stage with ...
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