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'Here is New York'

Stags wrote 4 days ago: ‘Here is New York’ by E.B White–An Excerpt There are roughly three New Yorks. Ther … more →

Tags: Excerpt, Here is New York

Quotes : E.B. White -- Life --

orarepot wrote 6 days ago: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. T … more →

Tags: Life, Quotes, Link

The Chill of Death

Alice wrote 6 days ago: No matter what anyone says about anything, it will be difficult to change my stance that E.B. White … more →

Tags: Chill of Death, Mortality, Once More to the Lake, Pete Loomer

APA Caution: Metaphor Crossing1 comment

Joe Linker wrote 1 week ago: We don’t find E. B. White adhering to APA guidelines. It’s more palatable monkeying with rats if one … more →

Tags: Reading, writing, APA Style, Grammar, James Joyce, jazz, McLuhan, Norman O. Brown, Poetry

Taking the Day Off: Book Clubs, Grammar, and E.B. White

Paul wrote 3 weeks ago: How do days off from work disappear so fast?  It’s already nearly dinner time, and I haven … more →

Tags: essays, true stories, New York Life, The Elements of Style, Charlotte's Web, grammar essay, the em-dash, Netherland, Joseph O'Neil

Elwyn Brooks White (E.B. White)1 comment

Ellyn wrote 3 weeks ago: We have all heard of “Charlotte’s Web” and those who haven’t read the book h … more →

Tags: Literature, writer, Essayist

Rushdie Reviews Review, Paris Ed.

Taylor Bright wrote 3 weeks ago: There is a collection of interviews from The Paris Review out now. The Times has Salman Rushdie … more →

Tags: Books, Philip Roth, The Paris Review, Salman Rushdie, Ernest Hemingway, John Ashbery, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Ezra Pound

New Outbreak of Grammar Influenza1 comment

Joe Linker wrote 1 month ago: We’ve only just noticed someone else coming to the aid of the mistreated E. B. White – Jennifer Bald … more →

Tags: Reading, writing, Grammar, reading crisis

Life's little reminders

jennasauber wrote 1 month ago: A busy, stressful day at work. Waking up with a headache. The Metro is 100 degrees. An annoying frie … more →

Tags: elements of style, Life, Reminders, Sweat the Small Stuff

elements of style.1 comment

Molly wrote 1 month ago: That's the edition I read. I love this book. “The approach to style is by way of plainness, si … more →

Tags: others' words, WorDs, elements of style, Grammar, William Strunk Jr

Reading With Fakename: Christopher Hitchens8 comments

fakename2 wrote 1 month ago: On Monday of last week I arrived in my office after about a three hour absence of running work erran … more →

Tags: Books, Humor, Authors, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, literary essays

The Point of a Journey is Not to Arrive

bellakagan wrote 2 months ago: 9/23/09 The Point of a Journey is Not to Arrive E.B. White’s Walden – 1954, written a century after … more →

Tags: AP Language : Selected American Authors, walden, Thoreau's in my yard again

REFLECTIONS: Mending the world

gvillecw wrote 2 months ago: Kiki and the works of mercy I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a … more →

Tags: Reflections, Days of Awe, Gainesville Catholic Worker, Krista Tippett, Rosh Hashanah, Sharon Astyk, Sharon Brous, Works of Mercy, Yom Kippur

List: 12+ Books I'd Read My Kids 5 comments

agoodspirit wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been thinking a lot about children’s books lately, and here’s why: one of my … more →

Tags: Lists, A Wrinkle in Time, Amelia Bedelia, baby books, Barbara Robinson, Bible, Books, Bridge to Terabithia, C. S. Lewis

Reading With Fakename: E.B. White3 comments

fakename2 wrote 2 months ago: “Brian”, construction guru and possible flirt, breezed into town last week and loaned or … more →

Tags: animals, Books, Authors, blogs, essays, children's literature

I ♥ NY71 comments

Hilary Gardner wrote 2 months ago: About six months before I moved to New York City, I came to visit. It was, as I recall, cold and cle … more →

Tags: New York City, 9/11, Big Apple, central park, chinatown, Dumplings, Food, Little Italy, Lower East Side

Stanley Fish, Full of Ethos

Joe Linker wrote 2 months ago: Few bloggers are as full of ethos as Stanley Fish – as he frequently reminds us. He’s lately been wa … more →

Tags: Reading, writing, Francis Christensen, Grammar, Stanley Fish

Best Boston Resources for John Myers and Liza Weinstein. 6 comments

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 3 months ago:   This is just one of the many attractive views in store for my friend John Myers and his wife Liza … more →

Tags: Current Books, Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas, larry bird, michael patrick macdonald, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, Drive: The Story of My Life, michael dukakis, A Civil Action

Funny Things

bobbycinnamon wrote 3 months ago: SW and I recently procured a television, and then got our hands on a fancy antenna and converter box … more →

Tags: ISPs are full of shit, Fun Things, Funny Things, Television, Michael Showalter, The Tonight Show


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