Slip Of The Tongue: Talking About Language

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Slip of The Tongue explores a wide range of topics in linguistics through reflecting on the author's life and surroundings. Author Katie Haegele is a respected memoirist who makes sense of the world around her by looking at the ways we use language: to communicate, to make art and simply to survive. She takes us through her life by describing her family's rich linguistic history and her own coming of age as a feminist and an artist, and introduces us to her hometown of Philadelphia, a city lively with graffiti, poetry and the remnants of its colonial heritage.

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"tangible, loving and imaginative." --Jenna Freedman, jennafreedman.tumblr.com
"Less like a book and more like a letter from a friend, a friend who knows all about the art of the rummage and the nuances of reviewing yard sales. It's a truly joyful read but also tinged with sadness and grief, in the way happiness is in real life. When you relate to another person, they have history: an amalgamation of grief, nostalgia, pain, and also happiness. This book will stay in my life for a long time." --"Razorcake"
"Part memoir and part intellectual ruminations on language, how we use it, and how it has changed, "Slip of the Tongue" will please anyone who fancies themselves a logophile or linguistics genius, or even just someone looking for a good, fun book." --Ashley Houk, "Utne Reader"
"Quirky, revealing, and most definitely unique, [Haegele's] distinctive, seemingly artless, and nakedly honest voice draws readers into her memoir." --"Philadelphia Inquirer"
"Sign me up for the Katie Haegele fan club. Whether she's deciphering untranslatable phrases or figuring out what to wear to a Slut Walk protest, her writing is honest and generous, and alive to the transcendent possibilities of language." --Marilyn Johnson, author, "The Dead Beat" and "This Book Is Overdue!"
"Since words do not exist in a vacuum, it seems to make sense then that it is poetry's fictions that can resurrect these dead words. Still, being a well-conceived project doesn't necessarily mean the result would be engaging. That they are attests to Haegele's tal-ents...witty, charming, and/or beguiling." --Eileen Tabios, "Galatea Ressurects" online magazine

Author Bio

Katie Haegele is a writer and zine publisher. She is the author of the memoirWhite Elephants and has been published in Adbusters, Bitch magazine, the Miami Herald, thePhiladelphia Inquirer, and the Utne Reader. She lives in Philadelphia.