Anne Panning’s memoir on the death of her mother, “Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss,” is written in brief fragments in which dragonflies operate as a vehicle that takes the reader through different places and moments in time.
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Kory Stamper goes behind the scenes of the lexicographer life
Early on in Kory Stamper’s new book, “Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries,” the author and lexicographer describes her life’s work and that of her fellow editors at Merriam-Webster in a way that is somehow both mundane and fascinating. It reads like the beginning of some strange, bookish version of a “Law & […]
