Sunday Post No. 1: The Spoken Word

Let’s hear it for the spoken word, for words in the air as well as on the page, for reading aloud as well as in your head, for performances of stories and poetry, and for open-air debates as well as the fast and furious ones that take place online.

I’ve seen the benefit of reading aloud in both my personal life—I’ve talked about how much I’m enjoying reading A Tale of Two Cities aloud, and how reading it aloud makes complex sentence structures more comprehensible—but I’ve also seen it in my vo...