Cumberland Clark—the “Bard of Bournemouth”—was, according to Anthony Daniels, the second-worst poet in the English language.* How bad was he? + more
Cumberland Clark—the “Bard of Bournemouth”—was, according to Anthony Daniels, the second-worst poet in the English language.* How bad was he? + more
“When a new thing…is presented us our first criticisms are not our truest, best, most homefelt, or most lasting but + more
Shots fired: The most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association states that two spaces should + more
Let’s talk about anyway, any way, and anyways. Because there is, in fact, a difference. Anyway is an adverb that + more
Spring 2016. A blog post by yours truly rails against the pernicious misuse of the word curate. Spring 2018. Wilfred + more
Lionel Shriver bravely tackles the “cultural appropriation” mob over at Prospect magazine. “Given that the better part of the human + more
Look, I’ve written some pretty cool stuff in my time. But even if I live to be 100, I know I’ll + more
Did y’all hear? Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute that “hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in + more
I don’t care what anyone says. Trigger Smith, owner of the Continental, a “divey mainstay of Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood + more
“Poetry,” writes Christian Wiman in today’s New York Times, “is the deepest expression, and the best hope for survival, of a + more
The Oatmeal has, as usual, nailed it: “Two half-wits do not equal a full-witted person. They equal a quarter-witted person.” + more
The two or three of you who regularly follow this blog will no doubt have noticed that we’ve been somewhat + more
In 1955, Robert B. Young, of Ford Motor Company’s marketing research department, sent a letter to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Modernist + more
When people have their writing “corrected,” they usually discover that their long, complicated sentences receive the most correction and criticism. + more
Everything about Rachel Toor’s column in Saturday’s Spokesman-Review is absolutely spot-on. Well…almost everything. Toward the end she writes, “As a professor, I’ve + more