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Standing on Points: A Podcast on the History and Culture of Punctuation.
A whimsical show featuring strictly-no-rules musings on all things dots and dashes by me & interviews with punctuation fans from poets to designers. 2020 to today. Click here.
2024
‘Druckfrisch’ a literature TV show with critic Dennis Scheck.
A telivised chat on the exclamation mark in German in the Berlin Letter-Museum. 17 March 2024. Click here.
‘Florence Hazrat on the history of punctuation and why the exclamation point was invented after the question mark!’
A podcast conversation about all things dots and dashes with David McRaney. Click here.
2023
‘Is the emoji killing the exclamation mark’ in Babel, The Language Magazine.
Yes and no! Find a hard copy to discover more, No 45, Winter 2023. Click here.
‘Perfect Just the Way You Are: In Defence of Slow Reading’ in Oh Reader.
Why we can read just the way we want to, always have, and always will, Issue 013, Fall 2023. Hard copy. Click here.
‘The Book that Made the Bard: 400 Years of Shakespeare’s Folio’ in The Millions.
Shakespeare’s collected works: how they were made, and why they’re crucial, 8 November 2023. Click here.
‘The King’s English? Forgeddabouddit!’ in Literary Review.
Umm, like, totally, dude! Why bad English is good. A book review. 1 November 2023. Click here.
‘How to exclaim!’ in The Millions.
Five ways how literature saves the exclamation mark from its bad rep, 11 October 2023. Click here.
‘People have ~feelings~ about the Exclamation Point’ for Grammar Girl.
A conversation about ! with Mignon Fogarty for her podcast series on the ins and outs of language, 25 July 2023.