John Warner

A guest post laying out a path forward for all institutions. Call me crazy, but I always thought that learning should be at the center of educational institutions.

I am always on the lookout for a title I can declare the “gift book of the year,” the special award I give to an offering that just screams, “I know

Modernization is the practice of updating the cultural references in a book in order to make them more immediately current and relatable to the present-day audience.

We don’t have to despair when there are clear alternatives.

I don't know what this says about me, but I like a good train wreck.

I have been of multiple minds since I first heard of this thing called book “modernization.”

John Warner is the author of Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities and The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing.

On July 4, 1976, I marched in the Bicentennial parade down Cherry Lane in Northbrook, dressed as Davy Crockett, “king of the wild frontier,” coonskin

We must be mindful of the ways automation alters our habits of mind.

How does one write a sequel to a novel where you not only killed the protagonist in the first book, but declared her death as inevitable in the title itself?