Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to honor their beloved sons.
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Maybe we should treat ranting like smoking, by creating special areas where people can rage together. -
Scientists are studying gliding reptiles to help develop the next generation of small airborne robotic devices. -
What happens when Hemingway the writer meets Hemingway the editing app? -
Weather tales of the past remind us that others have had harsh winters, too. -
English is a dynamic language. But some of the best saws are old as dirt.
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We asked people to give us the soundtracks they live by. The playlists — and the stories — may surprise you.
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Maybe we should look to Black Vultures and baseball millionaires as the new harbingers of the season. -
In the late 19th century, the U.S. government compiled a list of popular proverbs to help meteorologists predict the weather. Could some of that folk wisdom help us now? -
In the midst of increased connectivity, are we becoming more disconnected from one another — and ourselves?
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If you don't know the meaning of a word, says Mary Caton Lingold at Duke University, you can look it up in the dictionary, but if you don't know what a particular sound sounds like, where do you go?The Sonic Dictionary, of course.
