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Tag Archives: E.B. White

Loose Ends: Kael, Stacton, Kern, and Strunk and White

drawing of loose ends.

Today’s post picks up some threads from my previous posts at 317am. You know how it is when you discover a new word or a new food or a new writer. Suddenly you start seeing references to your new-found source … Read more »

Word Processing: Boon or Bane for Writers?

Photo of early IBM word processor.

I was working as a magazine writer and editor back in the late 1970s when one of my colleagues told me about this great new tool. “Word processing” he called it. I tend to be a skeptic where technology is … Read more »

Teenage Boys and the Truth of Fiction

Photo of boy reading a book.

In my last post I offered a modest theory on why few men read fiction – in brief, dread of chumpdom. Today we’ll consider two more aspects of the same phenomenon: how to turn teenage boys on to the habit … Read more »