Benjamin Dreyer of Random House would really very much rather that you write more good
Hello, smart MobyLives reader! Because you are so smart (you’re here, aren’t you?), we understand the type of content you’re really after: that sweet, sweet, super-newsworthy grammatical content. Well, friends, rest… Read more »
Dear Republicans, Don’t forget to proofread your shitty tax law unless you want to be, amazingly, even worse
The unequivocally great thing about 2017’s horrible Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is how it makes billionaires really fucking rich and the rest of us actually literally dead. But good news!… Read more »
A retired AP English teacher is the new, and potentially best, hero of the resistance
Tom Paine. Rachel Carson. Howard Zinn. Yvonne Mason? Yes, resisters, let us welcome Mason to the ranks of Fabled American Protest Writers. Because if the former English teacher’s marked-up letter… Read more »
When prime ministers use bad grammar on the meanest forum in the world
Ah, for the salad days, before Twitter, when we had to wait to mock politicians until they audibly uttered their terrible grammar (we’ll never forget you, Dan Quayle, you mighty Potatoe-head). It’s… Read more »
How to annoy copy editors and influence, I don’t know, somebody?
The unsung hero of readability is not grammar. It is not font choice, nor pica size. Nay, verily; that which transforms a collection of words into the elegiac beauty of artful… Read more »
The majority of Texans are gay, writes Texas GOP
Earlier this month, the Texas Republican Party gathered in Dallas to update the party platform for 2016. “As expected,” Leif Reigstad writes for Texas Monthly, “the platform was basically a… Read more »
Taylor Swift: grammar queen
The Princeton Review and Taylor Swift are never ever ever getting back together. The split came after it was revealed that Princeton Review, which preps students for college admissions tests,… Read more »
Sufjan Stevens: Singer, Musician, Editor
The Brooklyn-based indie singer and songwriter Sufjan Stevens is enjoying Miley Cyrus’s “#GetItRight.” But, he writes in an open letter to her, fix your grammar. As in: “I been laying in this bed” should be “I… Read more »
Grammar War declared in Britain: first Waterstones, now Mid Devon street signs
The township of Mid Devon is working to ban apostrophes from its street signs, the Telegraph reports. Three street signs in Devon will be affected: Beck’s Square and Blundell’s Avenue… Read more »