"Smoot" is one of 10,000 new words featured in the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, out this month. In an era when every definition is just a click away, why publish an enormous book ...

Are you a lifelong logophile, a voracious vocabularian, or a savvy sesquipedalian? If so, you've come to the right place. Between books, texts, emails, articles, and Wikipedia rabbit holes, we all ...

When you're talking about someone who really, really loves books, you pretty much reach for the words "bookworm" or "bibliophile" every time, right? They're great words! Growing up, I know I got ...

Some English words are spelled in complicated, counterintuitive ways. Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter wrote a children's book called "P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever" to explore some ...

We take words for granted. They’re the most basic building blocks of stories, the names we call each other, the way we explain our love to one another. These four thoughtful picture books make words ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link I just wrote a 93,000 word book. It's called Marissa Mayer and The Fight To Save Yahoo. I can't exactly explain why, but I wrote the entire thing ...