Please help me "Close the Book" on my memoir project!
My sixteen-year quest to publish my memoir The Accidental Terrorist is nearly over. I feel like I've been...
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The people have spoken -- the title remains the same
There seems to be some confusion out there about the title of my memoir. Hey, don't feel bad...
My memoir of life as a Mormon missionary is coming in 2015!
I never expected it would take so long to make this announcement, but my Mormon missionary memoir The Accidental Terrorist...
What David Mitchell is up to in “The Bone Clocks”
This post about The Bone Clocks contains mild spoilers. When grappling with works of genre fiction, most mainstream literary critics...
The future of English (as of 1904)
Here's the last of the excerpts I'll bring you from the book I've just finished reading, 1904's The Making of English by Henry Bradley. This is the passage...
How the prediction transpired
Last week I told you a bit about my recent bedtime reading, The Making of English by Henry Bradley. The book was published in 1904, and one of the peculiar delights of reading it more than...