By Andrew W. M. Beierle, AIW Board Member I am preparing for my first transcontinental road trip, a weeklong journey to my new home in the San Bernardino National Forest, 6,109 feet above sea level, where I plan to begin a new long-term writing project. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of this life-changing 2,645-mile trek [...]
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Words Immortal: In Memory of Poet Rachel Wetzsteon
by Mark Tarallo, AIW Vice President As soon as the news came, Facebook starting buzzing away with tributes to Holden, Esme, and Bananafish. A not-so-perfect day of mourning for half the readers of the world, myself included. Rest in Peace, J.D. Salinger. A day later, when Louis Auchincloss died, I felt grateful that I had [...]
Musings on a Snowbound Day
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member On this day, when we in the D.C. area are having our second heavy snow storm in a week (the first having deposited upwards of thirty inches of snow in places), and I look out my window at the tree branches weighed down by a foot of the white [...]
A Taste of Hiberno-English
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member If I had ten lives, one of them would be lived as a linguist. Language, phonetics, and the structure of the ways in which people speak their own languages and of how they carry that into English fascinate me. Modern Irish (what the Irish call Irish and others sometimes [...]
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