A profile in The New Yorker of writer Patricia Lockwood, author of Will There Ever Be Another You (Bookshop|Amazon) opens by saying she has “the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid,” a description the quirky author herself...
In 1963, the writer James Baldwin was the subject of a profile in LIFE magazine, in which he observed, “You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” This is part of a complete episode...
A violin maker wonders about the origin of a practice in his trade known as purfling, where a black and white line is inlaid into a tiny channel along the edge of the instrument. Martha traces the word back to the Latin filum, meaning “line” or...
jock
v.— «Do not jock/steal/hate on my profile. If you do you will be blocked and deleted, & I will put you on my jockers list.» —“My Site Rules” LaceyLee Nov. 18, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
wireline adj.— «The Company’s Wireline business provides telephone services, including voice, network access and nationwide long-distance services, broadband video and data services, and other communications products and services globally in 150...
Eastlos n.— «RUBIN: I’m like, “Oh, a Latino kid from Eastlos going to New York.” SANCHEZ: Eastlos? RUBIN: Yeah, East Los Angeles, going to New York.» —“Profile: Problems at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where virtually all of the...
