Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast for the Insanely Curious
Society & Culture
Mary Norris tells me she prefers to be called a Prose Goddess. But Comma Queen has stuck. Norris, a copy editor at The New Yorker for more than 30 years, is author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen – just out in paperback. Mary Norris -- with her wonderful sense of humor – helps make us feel more secure in our use of language. She demystifies fine points of grammar and punctuation. She liberates us to break rules that were never really rules to begin with. Her journey -- from a teenager hired to check swimmers for foot-fungus at a public pool in Cleveland -- to published author -- is worth sharing. So is her experience, recounted 23:30 into our conversation, of learning that her brother was becoming her sister (a singer/songwriter known by many New Yorkers) – which leads us back to grammar and the debate over the correct pronoun for transgendered individuals.
The Stanley Cup For The Hockey Novice
A Smartphone-Free Campus: The Buxton Leap
Processing Ukraine with Kevin Powers: Novelist, Poet, Iraq War Veteran
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Unplugged
Prof. Loretta J. Ross: Calling In the Calling Out Culture
The Power Of Regret: Daniel Pink (& Dr. Irvin Yalom)
Rachel Held Evans: The Girl With A Magic Book
Introducing the Feminist on Cellblock Y
Calling All Leaders Part 2: From Zero to Hero
How to Watch Super Bowl 53 Better Than Your Friends (feat. Terez Paylor)
Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations
Charlottesville (feat. Prof. Henry Abraham)
Calling All Leaders (feat. Admiral William McRaven)
The Environmental Voter Project (feat. Nathaniel Stinnett)
Jane Alexander: Live @ The Nantucket Book Festival
Punching Up (feat. Pete Dominick)
Michelle Wolf: Raw
Boots on The Hill (feat. Jeremy Teigen)
Paper Ballots, Or Else… (feat. Barbara Simons)
Arming Teachers: A Good Guy With A Purple Heart Weighs In
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