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I am teaching a one-day workshop called Delusions of Grammar, Sunday, June 25, 2023. 2-4 PM ET on Zoom. More info here.

DELUSIONS OF GRAMMAR
“All I know about grammar is its infinite power,” Joan Didion wrote, and if that sends a shiver of curiosity up and down your spine, welcome to my workshop! This one-day class is a high-energy exploration of the rhetoric of grammar: how to think strategically about form. We’ll look at how writers make decisions when they confront a sentence: the patterns sentences typically follow and the different ways clauses hang together. By the class’s end, you’ll be able to diagnose what makes a sentence boring and tweak it until it has more suspense than a Netflix thriller.

The Johnson Girls’ theatrical adaptation of Treasure Island!!!

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The Spotify playlist for Treasure Island!!!
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

A conversation I was lucky enough to have with Nicholson Baker at the Chicago Humanities Festival in which I ask him what he does with his mean thoughts, as well as how he came up with his scary potato horror story.