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A few weeks ago, Slate asked me to read a new biography of Bill Mauldin and put together a slide show of his work. I said yes, not because I knew a lot about Mauldin, but because I didn't. To me, one of the main charms of being a freelance writer (just ahead of working in your...   Read more

My latest book

"When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse" (the title comes from Mark Twain) does for the parts of speech what "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" did for punctuation. Sort of.
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Ben Yagoda teaches English, journalism and writing at the University of Delaware, and is the author, coauthor or editor of nine books, including /The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing/ and/ About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made/. He has written about language, writing and other topics for Slate.com, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, the American Scholar, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and many other publications. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.