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August 29, 2006

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Buy This Book

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Buy this book!

Okay I’m biased. I used to work at the Poynter Institute, where Roy Peter Clark hangs his hat, and I learned lots from him. Much of it was stuff that’s now encoded in this book, actually. But even so, I am so glad to have it all in one place. Even better, the volume is a wonder to behold: simple, slim, elegant.

And, you know, I can tell just from the feel of it that this is the kind of book that will age like good leather shoes: One day it will be totally worn out and beaten up from overuse, but somehow handsomer for it.

Dude, I have a question though — even when you’re Roy Peter Clark, how do you score blurbs from Mark Bowden, Sister Helen Prejean, Eugene Patterson, Howell Raines, Tom French, and David Von Drehle?

Indeed, Von Drehle writes: “Roy is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of writing teachers…” Just for the record, if one of his Snarkmarket students is Anakin Skywalker (i.e. initially promising but ultimately a force for total evil) it is definitely Matt.

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Posted August 29, 2006 at 9:13 | Comments (2) | Permasnark
File under: Books, Writing & Such, Briefly Noted, Journalism

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Robin. There's still good in him. I can sense it.

Another vote for evil.

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