Waywords Studio
Wanderings on Literature and Language
Waywords
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“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.”
Angela Carter
Waywords produces a web of programs and media designed to improve our thinking in democratic action, in critical literacy, in global understanding. We provoke, inspire, and wrestle with the ambiguities and richness of human thinking, from times modern to ancient.
While offering serious educational support for those who want it, Waywords entertains and engages with surprising takes on a wide range of global topics, from Western social trends to modern mythological thinking.
Criticism & Reviews
The Waywords podcasts and blog explore the workings of global literatures, language, and mythology through a social-epistemic rhetoric. Book reviews explore a wide range of genre, era, and region.
Fiction & Verse
Original prose includes verse, short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, published collections like Unwoven, and audio drama.
Teaching & Learning
Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, composition and critical reading, and English language learning.
“Monstress” by Marjorie Liu
3-Word Review: Gorgeous Layered Plot-Heavy Frictional Posture: What is the role of 'spectacle' in fantasy stories? in graphic ones?
“Elevation” by Stephen King
3-Word Review: Parable-like Plot-contrived Fitting Finale Frictional Posture: Besides weight, what is Scott also shedding which accounts for his ending?
“Lumberjanes” by ND Stevenson et al
3-Word Review: Misfitted Zany Mysterious Frictional Posture: Which to meet first: the traditional myth or its modern update?
“The Inconvenient Indian” by Thomas King
3-Word Review: Historical Personal Approachable Frictional Posture: Why does King measure his language and style so cautiously?
“from Sand Creek” by Simon Ortiz
3-Word Review: Pensive Physical Stirring Frictional Posture: How does Ortiz carry his history? How should we?
“PTSD Radio Omnibus” Vols 1-6 by Masaaki Nakayama
3-Word Review: Evisceral Repetitive Meta-fictional Frictional Posture: What proportions of the familiar and unfamiliar result in horror?
Ghost in the Garden – Dark Montgomery Pt. 1
What if Anne of Green Gables wasn't just an escapist daydream, but a calculated strategy that saved its author's life? Today we find the divide between L.M. Montgomery’s sunlit public fiction and her claustrophobic domestic reality. From hidden...
“Valuable Friction” by Robert Rose
3-Word Review: Fast-argued Provocative Enactable Frictional Posture: How is Rose's "Friction" different from mere critical thinking?
“Trees” by Hermann Hesse
3-Word Review: Illustrated Reflective Serene Frictional Posture: What valuable meaning remains in another's personal epiphany?
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