Recommendation: John Cheever
Just wandering through the library, I decided to grab a new and different book. “Here’s John Cheever. I’ve heard of him. Says here this book won the Pulitzer.” So, I… Read more »
Category: Writing
I Read a Book (Words 2)
Several years ago, I worked in an office where we collected words. Any time any one of us would find an interesting word, we’d post it on the board. The… Read more »
Another New Discovery: Jonathan Raban
I’m still muddling my way through Zinsser’s masterpiece, On Writing Well, and it continues to be the wonderful book it has been since the beginning. To it I owe, just… Read more »
Big Blue Dog
The big blue dog got around to it. It took plenty of time, but, as you should know, dogs are very deliberate. They’ve got to look the situation over before… Read more »
Grammar PSA
Let me take a moment to provide a public-service announcement: when·ev·er /(h)wenˈevər,(h)wəˈnevər/ conjunction: at whatever time; on whatever occasion (emphasizing a lack of restriction). “You can ask for help whenever… Read more »
On Writing Well IV: Joseph Mitchell
I’m still making my way through the book On Writing Well by William Zinsser (and still recommending it). He’s getting into specific forms of writing now – the interview, travel… Read more »
Didion and Self-Respect
I’m really getting into the writings of Joan Didion, and I’d started a piece that was inspired from a short segment of her 1961 Vogue piece “Self-Respect: Its Source, Its… Read more »
And it was…
I was sitting there casually talking to my doctor today when I realized it was September. I mean, that should be a totally unremarkable realization – almost a joke, really… Read more »
Joan Didion (On Writing Well, part III?)
If you went back to the very first post I made on this blog a few months ago, you’d see a certain methodology at work in my reading – the… Read more »
On Writing Well, II: Unity
A week or so ago I wrote a short post to announce the arrival of the book On Writing Well by William Zinsser. As I’ve said before many times, I’ve… Read more »