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The Roots of Hemingway’s Style

Ernest Hemingway’s writing style is always being described as “distinctive” and “muscular.” It’s easy to see why. He avoided adverbs and used strong verbs and short, declarative sentences. How he polished and perfected his style is, as you may imagine, a more difficult question.  Read more

How an Ex-Football Coach Wrote a Stylistic History of a Pandemic

For Christmas, my daughters gave me The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry. I was glad they did… Talk about timely and relevant! How better to gain perspective than reading about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 to 1919?  Read more