Welcome to the weird, wild, scintillatingly stylish, and syntactically sound world of RED PEN—the grammar podcast that won't put you to sleep.Brought to you by the Columbia Journalism Review and hosted by old buds Ryan Davis and Mike Laws, RED PEN plucks examples from the news (as well as from novels, music, movies—wherever!) to answer all those questions you were too afraid to ask in English class.Digressions may include: Green Day's early work, the oppressive atmosphere of latter-day Batman movies, and, of course, cats. Lots of cats.
Prepare to be scandalized. Oh, your stars!
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09hskjDhOnKtax0dBjCd2a?si=208cd9c1847c4c56).
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show Notes
The Science of Curse Words: Why The &@$! Do We Swear? (https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/why-do-we-swear), John-Erik Jordan, Babbel
4 Jun 2024
Verily Varying Verbs
How to crack the attention economy? Coldcock your readers.
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09hskjDhOnKtax0dBjCd2a?si=208cd9c1847c4c56).
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show Notes:
Breaking the Laws (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/red-pen-a-grammar-podcast/id1658608663?i=1000650833256), Mike on Nabokov, Red Pen S2 E8
Dangler Untangler: Make those modifiers sing (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/red-pen-a-grammar-podcast/id1658608663?i=1000593798686), Mike on dangling modifiers, Red Pen S1 E5
1 May 2024
BONUS: Red Pen at the Movies
Come for the critical reappraisal of ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ stay for Mike’s shocking revelation. Anon, good nurse!
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09hskjDhOnKtax0dBjCd2a?si=208cd9c1847c4c56).
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show Notes:
The Duchess of Malfi (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2232/2232-h/2232-h.htm), John Webster
Tamburlaine the Great, Part I (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1094/1094-h/1094-h.htm), Christopher Marlowe
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.7 / 5
35 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
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