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In her book, Go Far, Jennifer Strong McConachie mined her experience as an endurance athlete to write about four tenets she says are applicable in a race *or* in life. And she recently explained to Beth Golay, her desire for adventure around the world began at home... with books.
All sorts of fun with plurals today: what we get wrong when we try to use Latin plurals, the rules of English plurals, pluralizing compound words... Look out, our opinions on plurals are like a charging herd of rhinocerotes!
Take a look at Susan Orlean's contributors page at newyorker.com and you'll see that the topics of her essays—more than any other subject—have been about animals. A collection of those essays is available in a new book, aptly titled On Animals. KMUW's Beth Golay recently spoke with Orlean about the collection for this week's Marginalia.
We continue with our look at the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, as we dig into why it is we tend to spell them incorrectly, and the rules about why we spell them the way we do. And since this is English, we know rules are made to be broken!
Partly inspired by his family’s history, Sunjeev Sahota’s novel, China Room, begins in 1929 Punjab, when three young women are married to three brothers in a single ceremony. As the women work hard on the family farm, from beneath their veils they try to piece together which brother is their husband. Spiraled among this story are two other timelines, one in 1999, when the great-grandson of one of the brides returns to the family farm to fight an addiction, and 2019, when that same great-grandson returns to his parents home to write the story. I recently spoke with Sunjeev Sahota from his...