How do you organize the books on your shelf? Author Jane Smiley has developed a method that fellow book lovers will appreciate. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Some Large Book Piles Have Their Own Climates”...
A wine expert with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and a minor in French wonders about the origin of the term sommelier. It shares a root with sumpter, meaning “pack animal.” Sommelier used to refer generally to the person in charge of the...