Happy 2015, everyone. Let’s get right down to business, shall we? From a review of The Selected Letters of Willa + more
Happy 2015, everyone. Let’s get right down to business, shall we? From a review of The Selected Letters of Willa + more
pulchritude (noun) Physical comeliness; beauty. Though Aaron’s writing was woefully subpar, CK—sensing that the young man’s radiant pulchritude might come in handy during client presentations—offered him + more
N. M Gwynne has proven that happiness depends on grammar. No, really. Here he is in Chapter Two of Gwynne’s + more
Rob Long, who cut his teeth on a little television show called Cheers, is one of the most interesting writers on + more
I’ve been working my way through Gwynne’s Grammar, a delightful little book with a somewhat cheeky subtitle: The Ultimate Introduction to Grammar + more
“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I + more
You’ve probably heard the term clickbait. If not, you’ve certainly experienced it. You know—those cheesy ads along the margins of + more
While there are a lot of reasons for bad writing, the one I most frequently see is a lack of + more
Experts in West Africa are predicting as many as 1.4 million new cases of Ebola by January. The CDC is “doubling down” on + more
Anna Della Subin asks the tough questions: “[I]f procrastination is so clearly a society-wide, public condition, why is it always + more
“The trouble with writing,” concludes Michelle Huneven, “is writing.” Truer words were never spoken. But wait—there’s more: “Writing is difficult + more
Happy National Punctuation Day, everyone. What…you didn’t get me anything? Not to worry: you can make up for it by + more
Though I’ve more than once used this space to extol the virtues of Stephen King’s On Writing (here and here), I + more
I’ve long held that proofreading your own work is a fool’s errand. And no, it’s not because I particularly suck + more
So the other day the New York Times—you know, America’s “newspaper of record”—relied on anecdotes and hearsay to gravely inform its + more