Is Listening to Audiobooks Reading?
In a guest essay in the Times (November 23, 2025), Brian Bannon, the chief librarian at the New York Public Library and its director of branch libraries and education, argues…
D.C.’s Franklin School to become nation’s first interactive museum of words and language
A short essay listing the five favorite words (and why) by contributor Erin McKean, a noted lexicographer, author of seven books, and founder of the nonprofit online dictionary Wordnik.com.
Set Top Box, part of a series of artworks that deconstructs a television broadcast in real time to reveal hidden patterns of language
An interview about talkobamato.me with Ed King, who describes creating this wildly popular website, his inspiration, the implications of the website, and the potential applications of the technology