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Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

Written by: Columbia Journalism Review
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 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.© 2024 Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast Art Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • What. The. F*ck.

    What. The. F*ck.
    Jul 10 2024

    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.
    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?, John-Erik Jordan, Babbel
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Verily Varying Verbs

    Verily Varying Verbs
    Jun 4 2024

    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.
    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, Mike on Nabokov, Red Pen S2 E8
    Dangler Untangler: Make those modifiers sing, Mike on dangling modifiers, Red Pen S1 E5
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    33 mins
  • BONUS: Red Pen at the Movies

    BONUS: Red Pen at the Movies
    May 1 2024

    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.
    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, John Webster
    Tamburlaine the Great, Part I, Christopher Marlowe
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    49 mins
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