I interviewed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whom I think of as a poet who happens to write prose (he agrees). A fun conversation; his metaphors (sweet!) alone made it delectable!
https://t.co/JReMKyE8lU
I now assess students through in-class writing, and it's just a delight to see things crossed out and misspelled and those little ^ signs that show a person is thinking.
"Kaeshur, like any other living language, is essentially a speaking language — a medium of understanding and explanation. It does not depend on written texts."
Spoke to Kashmiri poet, linguist, and critic, Shafi Shauq, for this Sunday's Bookmarks column:
https://t.co/29WGTyRWIJ
But if you didn’t want to be proved wrong, if you didn’t want to be altered or antagonized in ways that you could never predict, why would you read at all?
https://t.co/QsdZBSkaGA
Years ago, when my still-receptive mind was dazzled by 'The Sense of Style', I half-agreed with Pinker on writing, but sensed something off. As @automachination sharply argues, it’s the arrogance and his fundamental misunderstanding of writing as art.
https://t.co/S1OKYjUMyD
Performative-reading phenomenon appears less like a newfangled way of calling people pretentious and more like an odious reflection of society’s increasing deprioritization of the written word.
https://t.co/1DC8w2nR1X
As an aspiring bookshop owner, this felt so warm. A beautiful story of a bookshop owner sharing her hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream: setting up and running a bookshop. 'Because bookshops make everything better, don’t they?'
https://t.co/gvCPrZS4Gg