Tuesday, January 25, 2011

How to Write a Sentence


On today's Talk of the Nation, host Neal Conan interviewed Stanley Fish on his new book How to Write a Sentence. Fish's emphasis on the intuitive learning of style is helpful and insightful, although he commits the blasphemy of suggesting Strunk and White's The Elements of Style is not entirely helpful. To that, one can only note that perhaps some are, sadly, beyond help.

You can read more and listen here.


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