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Ben Yagoda's Books
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Roanoke Times, September 15, 2011
...Hootiefish — September 14, 2011 @ 10:51 am I just finished reading “Will Rogers: A Biography” by Ben Yagoda. It was a good read. It was peppered with interesting quotes from Will Rogers. In light of some comments we’ve had from certain bloggers...
New York Daily News, June 23, 2011
...Pianos NYC and has hosted not just emerging writers but literary heavyweights, including Susan Orlean, Darin Strauss, and Ben Yagoda. For Mira, the series provides a family-like environment, and an escape from the isolation of writing freelance. Still,...
Washington Times, June 19, 2011
...Texas Tech University Press, $29.95, 408 pages The story of Will Rogers has been told before, by Ben Yagoda in a 1993 biography. Rogers, the son of a former slaveholder and Confederate veteran, one-quarter Cherokee with no more than a 10th-grade...
Huffington Post, May 16, 2011
...opportunity to have an intimate look into the lives of interesting people and their experiences. As documented in Ben Yagoda's book, Memoir: A History Why we love our memoirs: One of my favorite memoir is Laura Munson's New York Times best-seller, Other...
Poynter Institute, May 13, 2011
...s been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks, notes Ben Yagoda , “but in copy-editor-free zones — the Web and emails, student papers, business memos — with increasing frequency, commas and…...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, April 25, 2011
...$6 in services for every budget dollar. Yes, nonplussed is the word. A recent Slate.com article by Ben Yagoda noted the meaning of “nonplussed” has evolved. The formal definition of “nonplussed,” “perplexed or puzzled,” has changed so many...
STLtoday.com, April 21, 2011
...telling penny-saving students that he was "kidnapped" by the Taliban if he wasn't? A few years ago Ben Yagoda wrote an examination of the memoir genre. It's called simply "Memoir: A History." In it, he says that, overall, the proliferation of memoirs has...
Parabasis, August 3, 2011
...The Double Fyodor Dostoyevsky Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry The Amen Corner James Baldwin Memoir: A History Ben Yagoda The Dutchman LeRoi Jones Funnyhouse Of a Negro Adrienne Kennedy The Double Dostoyevsky This Boy's...
MediaMedia | Media, May 30, 2011
...Men TV Club: Sally Gets a Hair Cut My Letter to the Summer Tenants: A Landlord's Lament Ben Yagoda is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and the author most recently of Memoir: A History . He writes a blog about British words and...
I.N.K., May 17, 2011
...writing narrative nonfiction: On Writing Well by William Zinsser The Art of Fact edited by Kevin Kerrane an Ben Yagoda Telling True Stories edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Writing for Story by Jon Franklin Literary Journalism edited by Norman Sims...
You Don't Say, May 14, 2011
...cleansing breath? Time to switch to decaf? Need to take your hands off the keyboard? The other day Ben Yagoda suggested on Slate.com that it’s time in American English to put the quotation marks inside the punctuation. He has two reasons, the first...
Poynter. » Romenesko, May 13, 2011
...s been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks, notes Ben Yagoda , “but in copy-editor-free zones — the Web and emails, student papers, business memos — with increasing frequency, commas and…...
