From the very first time I read the Journal of Business, I’ve looked forward to seeing the handiwork of local + more
From the very first time I read the Journal of Business, I’ve looked forward to seeing the handiwork of local + more
Regular reader Mike W. (not his real name) has a question: “Is it all right to use alright instead of + more
In his Poetry Notebook (Liveright, 2014), Clive James says that “Man on the Moon” by Australian poet Stephen Edgar is “a perfect + more
I’m usually the first one in the office—sometimes by only 10 minutes or so, sometimes by a full hour. It’s + more
yugen (noun; Japanese) A sense of indescribable depth and profundity. After reading Aaron’s latest blog post, Courtney was suddenly overcome by + more
Grammar got you down? There’s a solution. “We know that grammar lessons alone do not improve writing much, if at + more
It’s Elmore Leonard’s birthday today. He would have been 91. Fifteen years ago Leonard published “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points + more
William F. Buckley, Jr., April 14, 1973: I guess I was seven when I first heard the maxim that only + more
“Grammar is credibility,” says Amanda Sturgill, PhD, associate professor of communications at Elon University. “If you’re not taking care of + more
Is a robot gunning for your job? If you’re a telemarketer, it’s already happening. And if you’re a bank teller, + more
In an interview published in the Spring-Summer 1957 issue of the Paris Review, Truman Capote, referring to the short stories + more
Remember back in June when I used this space to rail against the misuse of the word curate and its various + more
“Alone of the four cardinal virtues,” writes Christopher Ricks in Dylan’s Visions of Sin (Penguin, 2003), “fortitude does not go in for an + more
While visiting my daughter in Bozeman a couple of weeks ago, I stopped in at Vargo’s and picked up a copy + more
oppugnancy (noun) opposition; hostility; resistance “Hope you don’t have plans this evening,” sighed CK. “The deadline just got moved up.” “No problem, + more