Author: Arch Copy
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Book 1: Dare Me by Megan Abbott
I went into the library on Saturday and picked up book number one on the first shelf to the left – what I would consider to be the first book in the library. It’s a book about cheerleaders. It seems to be for adults, which is confusing, and is a confection of made-up compound adjectives.…
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My Opus
It is fairly important that you go take a look at my disserta— I mean the ingenie Young Driver Report. We’ve been working on it for a long time now and I’ve had dreams about road safety statistics. So do me a solid: go have a skim. The ingenie Young Driver Report >
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Snorri Sturluson
Was there ever a more Icelandic name than Snorri Sturluson? It’s like a swirling, whirling snowstorm. Snorri Sturluson was a poet, lawyer and historian, born in 1179. He is famous for having proposed that our gods begin life as earthly warriors, then rise to deity as cults grow around their tombs. Mourners call their dead leader’s name…
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Into the Library
I went to the library on Saturday. The lady who gave me my new card said: “Don’t disappear again” and I promised: “Only into the books.” It’s a magical thing, a library card in a library. What else gives us normals the power to acceptably take something you would usually have to pay for?* It’s…
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Good Words from My New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Yes, this is exciting. I had the writers and editors version in my Oxford style manual but now I have the LATEST EDITION, which was only released in August! Many pleasure, much enjoy: Cordon sanitaire – the barrier around an area of quarantine Glistering – synonymous with glittering Corniche – a road cut through a cliff Clangour…
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