Throwing cheese and shaky cheese are two very different things. In baseball, hard cheese refers to a powerful fastball, and probably comes from a similar-sounding word in Farsi, Urdu, and Hindi. Shaky cheese, on the other hand, is the grated...
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a foreign language. And third, find out what you truly believe, because if you’re not writing from...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s take-off quiz involves removing the initial letter G from a word to leave another word. For example, imagine that John said, “That waiter who put fresh parmesan cheese on my lasagna? I’d give him a 7 or 8...