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Michael Erard

Writer Michael Erard lives in Austin with his wife and a catahoula that climbs in the bathtub when it rains. His reporting on language and other topics has appeared, among other places, in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and the Texas Observer. His book about spontaneity and accidents in talking, Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, comes out this month from Pantheon. For more, go to www.umthebook.com.

In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was “Um”

Many hear verbal stumbles as a lack of eloquence—or worse, intelligence. However, explains MICHAEL ERARD, there’s a new love and respect for our little hesitations. (Op-Ed | August 9, 2007)

Chicken

Don’t know art but know what you like? How would you like to buy some art and never receive it? MICHAEL ERARD falls for a painting, then gets something unexpected in return. (Personal Essays | December 5, 2006)

Foolish Chances With Words

Laptops making writing easy to produce, and easy to erase. At least with typewriters you’re creating something that, however terrible, lives in the world. MICHAEL ERARD’s remembrance for the dented Olympia of his youth. (Personal Essays | March 15, 2006)


TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...