Full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins; author of "The Fact Checker's Bible." Lots of writing and editing at the New York Times and as editorial director at Amazon.
Joined April 2012
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Fun! Pop-up surprise planned for winter at Homewood bit.ly/31nx1Qj via @HubJHU
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Really fun to teach Brillat Savarin and MFK Fisher @JohnsHopkins today. She translated “The Physiology of Taste” in the late 40s and you can hear echoes of him in her prose.
Super engaged bookclub discussion of #MegRosoff 's "The Great Godden" tonight. (We all loved it.) Was the protagonist nonbinary, or what? And was Rosoff giving a nod to Rumer Godden's "Greengage Summer"? (Any excuse to discuss Rumer Godden.)
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Sarah Harrison Smith retweeted
Biographer Ann McCutchan recounts the life of Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a “maverick” who was clearly ahead of her time. @SHSmithBooks reviews the story of the “brilliant and brave” Rawlings wsj.com/articles/the-life-sh…
You’ll enjoy Ann McCutchan’s biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings even if you’ve never read Rawling’s work. It’s a fascinating depiction of a self-supporting, self-critical female writer living in a period of momentous cultural change. @wwnorton @WSJ
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Four fantastic books to help kids with friendship, from @PeachtreePub @LevineQuerido @candlewick @abramskids
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Your holiday shopping list...
The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor nyti.ms/3mw8duZ
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I'm seeing some amazing summer internships for writing students, such as this one, for budding arts critics, at the Wall St. Journal. Deadline is Dec. 13. Happy to advise. @JHU_CLE @TheWritingSems dowjones.jobs/new-york-ny/su…
Students @JHU_CLE who are looking for a DC-based internship: This one, @EWG, would have you working with top "science communicators" on crucial issues related to the environment and human health.
ewg.org/about-us/job-opening…
Loving what a former @JohnsHopkins student wrote to me about the Ruth Shalit Barrett debacle in #theAtlantic: "Once again I am amazed by the drama of the journalism world and the importance of accurate fact-checking!!!"
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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As a kid, I found Joan Aiken's books almost unbearably exciting. How fun to learn more about the childhood that nurtured her imagination. Like a child during the pandemic, she didn't go to school -- and then later she lived in a bus! #kidlit
An early Birthday present for Joan Aiken friends from @GuardianBooks - a picture history of how she came to be a writer...such treasures...first book advance £25.00!!!
theguardian.com/childrens-bo…
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What a treat to write about THE TIME OF GREEN MAGIC for the New York Times. "Iffen" you read this wonderful new novel, I bet you'll love it, too! @hilary_mckay
nytimes.com/2020/07/24/books…
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Baek Heena Wins 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t… via @publisherswkly
Delighted to have reviewed Tove Jansson’s letters for the Wall Street Journal today. What a woman! wsj.com/articles/letters-fro… via @WSJ @UMinnPress @ToveJansson1914
Very touched to see that, while closed, Baltimore public libraries will expand their “books by mail” service for patrons without access to the internet. @prattlibrary
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Internship alert for my writing students @TheWritingSems and @JHU_CLE: the deadline to apply for Slate's summer editorial internships is Feb. 1. slate.com/dc-editorial-inter…
@JohnsHopkins
Oh, the Groke. We all know one!
"It's dead. All the world has died while I slept. This world belongs to somebody else whom I don't know. Perhaps to the Groke. It isn't made for Moomins." - from "Moominland Midwinter" 1957, by author, illustrator Tove Jansson #womensart
Don’t you love it when the Times profiles “ordinary” people? Though This librarian must be a celebrity to the kids she works with. nytimes.com/2019/12/27/nyreg… via @NYTimes
Students who want to work in publishing: You’ve GOT to read Diana Athill.
‘When she died at the impressive age of 101, earlier this year in January 2019, she was famous as a memoirist, not a novelist.’
@LucyScholes on the life and work of Diana Athill.
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Sarah Harrison Smith retweeted
@ninastibbe giving what might be the best advice of the season.
Here I am being philosophical in @guardian ☀️🐓
📸 me, Crystal, & Vic. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
