Category: In the News
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Taking the mic with my dad at WDVR
A few weeks ago I went back to Pennsylvania (again! for the third time in November alone!) to visit my dad and do a guest DJ spot on his Wednesday-morning radio show (shout out to 89.7 WDVR for serving our river towns with great community radio). It was a fun time. I love being in…
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On editing Roald Dahl, and what I’d want for my own books decades from now
I scrolled into an interesting article/headline the other day: Big-Five publisher Puffin is implementing “extensive changes” across legendary author Roald Dahl’s catalog of children’s books. Some strike me more as modernization — replacing masculine plural nouns with gender-neutral ones — while others explicitly aim to remove offensive language. This is a thought-provoking issue for me…