An obsessive history of The Elements of Style
E.B. White reviled the “outraged precisionists and comma snatchers†who ruled grammar and usage.
E.B. White reviled the “outraged precisionists and comma snatchers†who ruled grammar and usage.
Don’t miss the great Times profile of Padgett Powell, my former writing prof, who reads from his new book later this week.
W.W. Norton will publish my friend Alexi Zentner’s first novel in 2011. Alexi co-won the 2008 Narrative Prize.
R. Crumb’s faithful rendering of Genesis highlights the book’s inconsistencies, including the conflicting accounts of the creation of humanity. Was Eve formed as a subservient “helper,” from Adam’s rib, or did the Lord make man and woman at the same time, with a let-there-be-light-type command? The simultaneous creation story is the older one, actually, but fundamentalists read them together, giving . . .
“I had enough information to do a far better hatchet job on me than anybody else could!” An interview with Alasdair Gray.