by Christine Kenneally BH | Mar 28, 2011 | Books, The First Word
I had reason to check back in on my interview with the legendary Leonard Lopate on WNYC, recorded when The First Word was published. I never posted it, so here it is now.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Nov 30, 2010 | Books, The First Word
Nicholas Blechman and Greg Mollica, who created the cover for "The First Word," get their due in "Penguin 75." A wonderful book celebrating Penguin's 3/4 century, it features 75 of the best and worst covers from the past decade with commentary...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 18, 2008 | Books
It’s not like pork. That misunderstanding about the taste of human flesh is attributable to one of those linguistic mix-ups between explorers and locals: Apparently Pacific Islanders called human meat “long pig” because wild pig was the only other...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Apr 7, 2008 | Books, Words
When you are searching for a word that is more precise than another though similar in meaning, you don’t browse Piozzi’s. Yet British Synonymy, the first English book of synonyms, was written by Hester Lynch Piozzi. Nor do you grab your Girard’s....
by Christine Kenneally BH | Feb 29, 2008 | Books
The First Word got a nod in the LA Times Book Prize nominations! Winners will be announced in April.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Feb 1, 2008 | Books
Check out Slate’s winter picks. I chose fiction for a change.
