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29/06/2024

A breezy guide to grammar sides with the ordinary Joe against the nitpickers

26/06/2024

What does it take to write a novel? Bestselling authors Dervla McTiernan, Benjamin Stevenson and Jock Serong share a behind-the-scenes look into their writing processes.

01/06/2024

Chapters are an obvious but invisible part of reading. Here's how they came to be and how they spill over into our favourite TV shows.

03/02/2024

Time for the experts …

12/12/2023

26/07/2023

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28/06/2023

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/remembering-robert-gottlieb-editor-extraordinaire

At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment—someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too.

21/06/2023

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IG8jtaPQl9t9ECPXNS2zzpDSbTkTuJziAljBlO4E_Lk/edit

Contact Information: International Plain Language Federation Gael Spivak [email protected] International Organization For Standardization Approves First Plain Language Standard The standard will help people around the world access and use information June 20, 2023 — Today, the Intern...

28/04/2023

There is an interesting new story emerging about the lengths of speeches in early modern plays. In the space of five years there was a dramatic shift in style – and it wasn’t just Shakespeare.

03/03/2023

Encyclopedias are not like rose bushes, for which pruning is everything. They are usually the opposite, more like Japanese knotweed, spreading wildly and germinating freely, invasive and persistent…

03/03/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/02/dont-write-what-you-know-write-what-you-feel-bestselling-authors-offer-tips-on-world-book-day

Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good ones

03/02/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/24/when--ize-spellings-were-standard-english?fbclid=IwAR0BzZFslspLwdas2mXjo2lW6kdWFA02hGojNygUKczyrJ6CmaSFo-uK3pM

Letters: The -ize suffix is not simply an Americanisation, writes Paul Dormer, while Andrew Ryan remembers it was a crucial plot point in an Inspector Morse episode