@benyagoda

benyagoda has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in June 2023. Besides social media accounts, benyagoda has populated their site with A Short History of “Hack” | The New Yorker, Do You Say Amongst Instead of Among? Here's Why. | Slate, Y'all: The Strange and Contested History of a Southernism | Stop Smiling, Ih-rack or Eye-rack? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off. | NPR, That Word for a Meme-Obsessed, Self-Aware Age | Slate, Pardon the Interjection: The Internet, and the Rise of “Awwa,” “Meh” and “Heh” | Slate, How 'Weed' Became the Ubiquitous Term for Marijuana | Slate, Does 'Novel' Now Mean Any Book? | Slate, Disinterested or Uninterested? How Long we Should Cling to a Word's Original Meaning | Slate, You Need To Read This: How “Need to” Vanquished “Have to,” “Must,” and “Should” | Slate, 'Logical Punctuation'. Yay or Nay: Should We Start Placing Commas Outside Quotation Marks? | Slate, My Heart Belongs to 'Mother' | The New York Times, 7 Grammar Rules You Really Should Pay Attention To | The Week, 7 Bogus Grammar ‘Errors’ You Don’t Need to Worry About | The Week, Fanfare for the Comma Man | The New York Times, Tense Talk: Examining How Tenses are Used and Misused in Sports Writing | The New York Times, Cartoons Go to War: Bill Mauldin’s One-of-a-Kind War Cartoons | Slate, A Shy and Brainy Guy: How Steve Martin Got So Funny | Slate, ‘The Soldier’s Truth’ Review: Ernie Pyle, at the Front | The Wall Street Journal, ‘The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book’ Review: Jerry Seinfeld Talks Funny | The Wall Street Journal, ‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Gridiron on Guadalcanal | The Wall Street Journal, ‘The Newspaper Axis’ Review: Hitler’s Editorial Allies | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Index, A History of the’ Review: List-O-Mania | The Wall Street Journal, Two Books About the Boston Celtics | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Republic of Detours’ Review: The New Deal in Travel Guides | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Americanon’ Review: In Search of Our National Bookshelf | The Wall Street Journal, ‘The Captain & Me’ Review | The Wall Street Journal, ‘An Aristocracy of Critics’ Review: Pressing Concerns | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Dreyer’s English’ Review: Flossing Your Prose | The Wall Street Journal, In the Master's Classroom: John McPhee Offers Reflections and Advice From His Long Career Writing Creative Nonfiction. | The Wall Street Journal, Beckett, ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover,’ ‘Tropic of Cancer’ — All Published by Barney Rosset | The New York Times, ‘Citizen Reporters’ Review: The Cyclone and the Trust Buster | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Sinatra: The Chairman’ and ‘Sinatra’s Century’ | The New York Times, ‘Mr. Straight Arrow’ Review: The Good Example | The Wall Street Journal, Writing the City, Block by Block: Joseph Mitchell | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Condé Nast’ Review: The Showman Of Vanity Fair | The Wall Street Journal, ‘Culture Crash,’ by Scott Timberg | The Wall Street Journal, Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning | Literary Hub, I'm Upset. Quote Me. | The New York Times, When Mary Martin Was the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up | Longreads, Suffering Silently: A Tribute to Great Ventriloquist Arthur Worsley | The New York Times, Embrace the Urge: The Ubiquitous Hug | The New York Times, What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson? | Smithsonian Magazine, One Cheer for Whataboutism | The New York Times, Gaming: The System | The New York Times, When Critics Go Soft, Audiences Pay the Price | Slate, Believe It or Not: Why Memoir Fabulists Rarely Get Away with It | Slate, Michiko Kakutani: A Critic with a Fixation | Slate, Memoir's Truthy Obligations: A Handy How-to Guide | Nieman Storyboard, Trial and Eros: When Lady Chatterley's Lover Ran Afoul of Britain's 1959 Obscenity Law | The American Scholar, The Genius of The 9/11 Commission Report: How a Government Committee Made a Piece of Literature | Slate, An Appreciation: Tom Wolfe | The Wall Street Journal, Five Best: Ben Yagoda on the American Songbook | The Wall Street Journal, On His New Album of Sinatra Covers, Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to an Era He Once Derided | Slate, The Strange 1960s Gym-Class Anthem in Apple’s New iPhone Commercial | Slate, “I’m Dreaming of a White President”: Randy Newman on His New Song | Slate, Johnny Cash on Demand: Get Ready for Tribute Songs to the Man in Black. Lots of Them. | Slate, What Bob Dylan Owes to Frank Sinatra — and Vice-Versa | Forward, Billy Joel Honored With George Gershwin Prize | Tablet, The Von Trapps Are Back With a New Musical Sound | Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Writing Mistakes You’re Probably Making | Huffington Post, 5 Ways to Deal With Word Repetition | Writer's Digest, In Writing, First Do No Harm | The Wall Street Journal, The Elements of Clunk | The Chronicle of Higher Education, Should We Write What We Know? | The New York Times, The Point of Exclamation | The New York Times, Mad Dash: How to Use the Dash in Writing | The New York Times, The Most Comma Mistakes | The New York Times, Breaking: Bad (Otherwise Known as the Roots of Jimmy Fallon’s Charm) | The New Yorker, The Last Man on Earth' Just Finished its Fourth Season. Is Anyone Still Paying Attention? | Slate, Interview: Uma Thurman | Rolling Stone, How Arrested Development Reinvented the Catchphrase | Slate, His Kingdom for a Horse: Memories of my College Adviser, David Milch, Creator of HBO’s “Luck” | TV Worth Watching, “Summer of ’42” in “The Shining” | Movies in Other Movies, Fact Checking “In Cold Blood” | Slate, Going Deep: How Gary Smith Became America’s Best Sportswriter | Slate, My Life as a Hack: It Was Glorious. Now It's Over. | Slate, Benevolent Dreamer: Ben Yagoda on St. Clair McKelway | Columbia Journalism Review, Calvin Trillin and Classic Edna Buchanan | Nieman Storyboard, Marv Albert Invented the Sound of Modern Basketball | Slate, A Modesty Proposal: How Should Roger Federer Talk About His Own Greatness? | Slate, The Rise of the Robo-Ref | The New York Times, In Italy, an Immersive Travel Program Combines Sightseeing and Art Conservation | Washington Post, Starved for Italy? Mark Your Calendar for Next Fall’s Harvest Time | The Wall Street Journal, An Art Trail That Takes You From the Picturesque to the Sublime | Washington Post, Bento Box Bingo: The Only Firm in New York That Delivers Fresh-Made Bento-Box Lunches | Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, As the Ice Beckoned, a Crime Unfolded | The New York Times, The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain | The Atlantic, It’s Much Safer to Back Into Parking Spaces. Why Don’t We Do It? | Vox, Mayor on a Roll: Ed Rendell | The New York Times.