Writing
Blogs
I have been blogging intermittently at A Dress A Day since 2005. That’s a lot of dresses! If you are looking for the “You Don’t Have to Be Pretty” post, it’s here.
There is also a semi-defunct word-stuff blog here.
Books
I have written:
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one novel, The Secret Lives of Dresses. (Soon to be an Australian Motion Picture!)
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The Hundred Dresses, a field guide to dresses.
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Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. (Protip: if you’re going to buy one of these, buy Totally, it’s the combination of the first two plus … extra words.)
and edited:
Essays of mine also appear in:
- The 5 Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages
- Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto (Read the essay “Making Books Out of Words”)
Fiction:
- The short story “Not Waving But Drowning” appears in the anthology The Machine of Death. You can hear me reading it here.
Articles
in The New York Times:
- The Wise Words of Maya Angelou. Or Someone, Anyway. (Op-Ed April 9, 2015)
- Using Undictionaried Words, (Opinionator June 4, 2012)
- Redefining Definition (On Language December 17, 2009)
- Corpus (On Language July 29, 2007)
- Lexicographer (On Language November 11, 2004)
- Neologist (On Language, August 25, 2002)
at The Pastry Box Project:
- Thank You So Much For Your Email!, (July 1, 2015)
- Why Women Cry, Or, Wenches With Wrenches, (May 1, 2015)
- On “Futurekindness”, (March 11, 2015)
on Medium:
- My Favorite Words (and some phrases) from TED2018
- Debugging Tips for Hackathons
- The Productivity Tool Every Developer Should Be Using
- Create a simple, free, text-driven Twitterbot with AWS Lambda & Node.js
- Why I Love XOXO, or, “Don’t Cry, Organize”
elsewhere:
- Expert Sitings, (Foreign Policy, October 14, 2009)
- “The Last Word: Dictionary evangelist Erin McKean taps the best word resources online, (School Library Journal, July 1, 2010)
- Of course “twerk” belongs in the dictionary—it’s been around for 20 years, (Quartz, August 30, 2013)
- Five Things I Learned as a Female Founder (Huffington Post, February 4, 2014)
- Stitches and startups: 5 entrepreneurial lessons from my life as a dressmaker (Upstart Business Journal, August 20, 2014)
- Faved for Posterity (Offscreen Magazine, No. 12)
- Diana Vreeland Writes a Technology Help Column, (The Toast, November 17, 2015)
- Bin Ladens, Tubmans, and Benjamins: What we talk about when we talk about cash (Timeline, May 10, 2016)