Interview with James Meek
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Author Interviews, James Meek
James Meek’s last book, The People’s Act of Love won the 2006 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, the 2006 Ondaatje Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. James has worked as a journalist since 1985 and his reporting from Iraq…
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leave a comment Writing With Spunk and Bite, and Ming-the-Merciless Revision: An Interview With Arthur Plotnik
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Arthur Plotnik, author interviews, editing, Elements of Style, revision, Spunk and Bite, writing
With amazing grace The Elements of Style (aka Strunk & White) saved me, scoured clean the mucus clogging my prose. An enthralled disciple, I bowed to this iconic writing rulebook. I put myself in the background; I omitted needless words; I spared figures of speech.…
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