Figurative language

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from author Susan Orlean…. I have visited Southern California many times, on perhaps as many as a dozen different trips. But I have

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Roxana Robinson…. Roxana Robinson is the author of 11 books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. I

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Sebastian Barry… Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who was named Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2019–2021 and who has

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Shelby Van Pelt.  Author Shelby Van Pelt, pictured above, grabbed my attention when I learned she had written a novel

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Dwight Garner… My two big hobbies are reading and cooking. So imagine my reaction when I heard about the subtitle of Dwight Garner‘s

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Edward Chisholm… I first heard about writer Edward Chisholm on my favourite food podcast, Milk Street. Chisholm is an Englishman who graduated

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about some similes and metaphors from Michael Finkel… Michael Finkel knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 10. Unlike many writers, however, he

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Jessica Winter… An editor at The New Yorker, where she also writes about family and education, Jessica Winter is the author of

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Sigrid Nunez…. Sigrid Nunez, pictured above, was only a moderately successful American fiction writer until she won the 2018 US National Book