Tag Archives: writing

Infographic of the Day

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

Taken from Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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Food fight!

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

Glynn Marshes writes: Trouble on the literary scene! A couple of Brit writers–RJ Ellory and Stephen Leather–were caught posting sock puppet reviews on Amazon. Their probable undoing: they didn’t stop at giving their own books 5 stars. They also posted … Continue reading →

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House Style at The New Yorker

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

Paleo Retiree writes: Take a look at the following first-lines-of-articles-from-The-New-Yorker and tell me if you’re as struck by certain patterns and similarities as I’ve been. “In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several … Continue reading →

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A Way with Words

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Fenster writes: The term rhetoric is an evocative one for an Ivy wannabe like me.  It summons up all the mysterious virtues of a classical education, the kind of education that some of the co-authors on this blog suffered through … Continue reading →

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