In honor of it being National Punctuation Day earlier this week (the 24th, to be exact), here are some punctuation-related links:::
Mary Norris’ delightful piece on National Punctuation Day in The New Yorker
Literary agent Sterling Lord talks about how deeply Jack Kerouac thought about punctuation in his recent memoir Lord of Publishing
“Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,” said Kerouac in his “30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life”
Alexis C. Madrigal gets to the bottom of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac duking it out over the Oxford comma in The Atlantic
I suggest The Atlantic is creating their own fauxlore in their beatnik punctuation story
Thoughts on punctuation in haiku, with references to Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Jack Kerouac, R. H. Blyth, Sora, Yaha, Richard Wright, James Hackett, Choshu, Hashin, L. A. Davison, David Coomler, and e. e. cummings
e. e. cumming’s liked to play with punctuation in poems like r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
Roi Tartakovsky considers this topic in E. E. Cumming’s Parentheses: Punctuation as Poetic Device
“There are some punctuations that are interesting and there are some punctuations that are not,” says Gertrude Stein in Poetry and Grammar
Poet Bob Holman explains how to read a crossed out word out loud in The Brooklyn Rail
David Foster Wallace used endnotes to capture fractured reality
Check out “the greatest literary project of all time“: The punctuation-named lit journal The Ampersand Review
Punctuation impacts how readers perceive a work, I argue in this Writing Wednesday post
Which punctuation tattoo would you get?
Grammar Girl is the best go-to guide for “quick and dirty tips” on punctuation
Want exclamations in bed?! Check out the punctuation pillows from PB Teen
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 