Monica in Tallahassee, Florida, says that while reading the book Flossie and the Fox to her children, she wondered: What’s the right way for a parent to render dialect if the dialect is not one’s own? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript...
Proofreading is a skill to be learned, but you can start with tricks like printing out the text, reading aloud, or moving down the page with a ruler, one line at a time. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Proofreading Tricks” Hello...
As Alberto Manguel points out in his book A History of Reading, there was a time when reading silently was considered a strange habit. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “History of Reading Silently” We were talking on our Facebook...
Good poetry is even better when you read it aloud. For his anthology, Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected works with just that in mind. Martha and Grant discuss a poem from the...
