Hey Geek Dads, Here's maybe the best project of the summer. It's called "The Practical Pyromaniac Clerihew Contest." To celebrate the publication of my new book The Practical Pyromaniac, the Chicago ...

Have you ever heard of Edmund Clerihew Bentley? If I had, I have forgotten and so felt like I was learning something new while researching this week’s column. For those of you who are unfamiliar with ...

Dr. George Richard Clerihew, 95, passed away on February 21, 2025, in Denton, Texas. He was born on April 1, 1929, in Antelope, Texas (Jack County), to Arthur and Claudia Alford Clerihew. At the age ...

This be the (light) verse ... Clerihewist GK Chesterton. Photograph: Getty Many of you who pass by this humble shop window in search of quaint diversions will already be familiar with the story of ...

Suggest a contest for your fellow wordplay lovers. If we can use or adapt your idea, we'll bestow upon you any book from The Atlantic Store. Edmund Clerihew Bentley isn't around to poke fun at today's ...

Paul Ingram, the legendary book buyer at Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa, since 1989, is joining another elite group: booksellers who are published authors. The Lost Clerihews of Paul Ingram will be ...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, an English writer and poet who has been dead more than a half century, invented a short, comic rhyming form while he was alive: four lines in all—brisk, sharp, the intent of ...