So I’m finally getting around to reading Jonathan Franzen’s Purity. The other day I came across the following passage: Her body + more
I got the terrible news this morning that Jim Boyd died Tuesday. I met Jim back in 2002 when I + more
Over the last couple of years I’ve striven mightily to reduce the level of snark directed at public grammar/syntax/spelling/usage errors. No, + more
Leave it to Linda to ask the pertinent, pressing questions of the day. Like, “Should I wear the Manolo Blahniks or + more
“There are no two ways about it,” wrote John C. Abell in a 2011 article over at Wired. “E-books are here to + more
I know what you’re thinking: that I’m about to take these poor folks to the woodshed for hyphenating a compound formed + more
E. B. White, from an interview conducted by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther for the Fall 1969 issue of the + more
Premier and premiere are, respectively, the masculine and feminine forms of the word for “first” in French. But is there + more
The writer and I have constant disagreements on how the en dash and em dash look in a sentence – space + more
Q: Three women walk into a bar. Which one’s the vegan? A: Don’t worry. She’ll tell you. There are a lot + more
shih (noun; Chinese) An insightful, elegant kind of knowledge. Though she considered him ill-bred and loutish (if not a downright cad), Courtney had to admit + more
Principal or principle? This is one of those questions that, even after 15 years as a professional writer, can still + more
Kudos to the Spokesman-Review‘s Stefanie Pettit, who sounds the alarm over the “declining into banality” of language. Here’s the money quote: + more
Great reminder from June Casagrande that your dictionary is good for more than just definitions: Here are just a few of + more