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Former copy editor , author of BETWEEN YOU AND ME and GREEK TO ME.

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  1. Jan 15

    Oh, boy, Emily has issued another bulletin from the Dept. of Salad! I'm still scooping up oranges.

    Help yourself to some fresh salad, now! I mean: who knows how long we'll be on this stupid planet?
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    Jan 15

    Our judges for 2021 have created their long list. Hear what their chair, , has to say about it: “This is a wonderful – and thrilling – long list. We have such an amazing range of books about Greece in all its forms and glories.... 1/

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    Jan 15

    As we face weeks more locked down because of the pandemic, what a treat to be able to be able to dive into books written by some of the superstars of the academic and literary worlds.“ The full list is here: 3/3

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  4. Jan 15

    So proud and honored to learn that GREEK TO ME is on the long list for the Runciman Award 2021 (bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence). Θαύμα!

    The judges have announced their long list of 21 books for the . See our press notice and the full list at: . Congratulations to all 21 authors and their publishers.
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    Jan 15

    Thanks, ! I'm very pleased to be in such good company.

    Image: pink clouds. A person in silhouette with a fist raised. Text: Best Small Fictions 2020. And So Shall the Carrion Call by Dakota Cannon. The Farmers Daughter by Melissa Benton Barker. Boba Talk by Andy Lopez. The Space of Continuous Decline by Mary Grimm. Sappho and Sappho and I, Sappho by E.B. Schnepp.
    We're excited to announce our Best Small Fictions Nominations: , , , , and !!!! 🍃 Check out the work below:
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  6. Jan 9

    Watching KING KONG (the original), and after what we've been through he is just the sweetest.

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    Jan 8

    PRAISE MY SALAD NEWSLETTER INSTEAD

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  8. Jan 8

    Yay!

    It's CITRUS TIME! Welcome to the Department of Salad #10 by
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    Jan 8

    Everyone has gone very quiet in Britain. Is it now just too terrible? What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? Bertolt Brecht

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    Jan 8

    Woohoo! 🍾 "An outstanding biography."

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  11. Jan 8

    As promised, and : may have other ideas for oranges besides as garnish for our Negroni!

    Tomorrow’s issue of The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin is about citrus, citrus, citrus, motherfuckers! It’s a truncated issue, because who can focus? I just think we can all use the Vitamin C and the beauty. Expect it late in the afternoon, when you’re drunk.
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  12. Jan 5

    Mosaic birds!

    Apparently it is , which seems like a good excuse to post some images from the mosaic in the House of the Birds in the city of Italica (Spain) - one of my favourite Roman sites.
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  13. Jan 5

    Catnip, as a blurber might say, for the desk set. You know who else would like it?

    Well, this is a delightful review (cc'ing esp. and ).
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    Jan 3

    Loved this reflection. The books and reports and training materials I edit don't tend to publish public corrections, but the feelings described here are nevertheless all familiar!

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    Jan 2

    So thrilled to have my newsletter, "The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin" featured in this terrific piece by "No other American dish has undergone so many transformations, or holds up a better mirror to changing times." via

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  16. 29 Dec 2020

    Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of the Japanese edition. Red is lucky, right?

    Dear Your Majesty, The Japanese edition of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen," translated by Your Majesty's faithful servant on the other side of the earth, has just been published! Thank you, Your Majesty!
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    27 Dec 2020

    Mary Norris sorts through the archive of Edward Stringham, a collator at The New Yorker for four decades, who spent his life engaged in a systematic effort to digest all the art and music and literature in the Western world.

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  18. 27 Dec 2020

    Oh, no! Exit Reginaldus.

    Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81
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  19. 27 Dec 2020

    Dept. of Labors of Love

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  20. 23 Dec 2020

    And to too.

    This goes out to all the copyeditors ( et. al.).
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