'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meis...
A striking debut novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble, and fracking--a new kind of environmental novel by an important voice in the debate about fracking in America.When the tap water at ...
Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields "the Cole Porter of his generation"; O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as "the wryest pen since...
Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance contributor to SCRABBLE News, John D. Williams fell down a rabbit hole inhabited by gamers, geeks, and the grammar police. For twenty-five years, as th...
When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught--the swim test consists of being thrown into the pool with wr...
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meis...
From antidisestablishmentarianism to zo, a unrivaled collection of today's greatest words Have you ever wondered what the longest word in the dictionary is? Or the origin of your go-to curse word? ...