I’m feeling punk means feeling a bit ill, out of sorts, or queasy, not necessarily bedridden. Tom in Council Bluffs, Iowa, heard it from his grandmother, born in 1899, and wondered how it connects with the punk used to light fireworks. Both trace...
A new book called Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation, by veteran travel writer Jan Morris, celebrates the Venetian artist Carpaccio, who often used swaths of bright red in his paintings. His color choice is said to be the inspiration for beef or tuna...
Judy Schwartz from Dallas, Texas, sent us the best sentence she read all day. It’s from William Zinsser’s On Writing Well: “Clutter is the disease of American writing.” Have a sentence that stopped you in your tracks? Send it our way. This is part...