Raymond Chandler on Writing

I just added another article to the “Writing” section, entitled ‘Raymond Chandler on Writing.’ You can find it here.
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Big History Show Paper is Done

It wasn’t easy, but I finally finished the paper for the Liverpool conference on Friday. The main trouble was the presentation software, but I finally settled on Apple’s Keynote, from the new iWork 08 suite. It’s superb. I started this morning never having used it before and by 4.30 this afternoon I’d finished the paper–and [...]

100 British Crime Writers

Esme Miskimmin and I have just been offered a contract with Palgrave Macmillan to write a reference book called 100 British Crime Writers. This will be a companion to 100 American Crime Writers and will follow the same format of a detailed introduction followed by 100 biographical articles. Both books will be published as part [...]

Key Thinkers Review

The journal Forum for Modern Language Studies has a nice short review of my co-edited book Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. This is encouraging at a time when work on its sibling volume, Key Ideas is underway. Here’s the review, which appears in Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(1):102-103:
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