December 12, 2018
In Defense of Long Sentences
When it comes to prose style in contemporary literature, no two works have had a greater influence than George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” and Strunk and […]
January 11, 2012
Short Takes: For Those About to Write
In a Letter to the Editor printed in a 1984 edition of Amherst College’s student newspaper, the Amherst Student, David Foster Wallace (then just “Dave Wallace ‘85”) takes on an […]