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I'm going to speaking at the Free Library of Philadelphia a week from today--that's Monday, March 18--at 7:30 PM. You can get all the details here, but it's a free event, so all you really need to do is show up.
There's one little fun wrinkle. I have agreed to give a constructive critique of some samples of audience members' writing from the stage. If you'd like to be considered for this, please send submissions (three pages maximum) to authorevents@freelibrary.org. If you're chosen, you'll get a free copy of How To Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Errors and the Best Ways to Avoid Them.
Hope to see you at the library.
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On Mr. X
Dear Ben,
I am writing to congratulate you on your piece "Mr. X" which I just finished reading. I enjoyed the elegance of the prose, the wit, and the humanity of your characters.
I intend to purchase a copy of your book How to Not Write Bad and carefully consider it for adoption in my historiography and historical methods class. Historians are writers after all.
I insist that my students develop and experiment with their prose and my advice is: never start a sentence with "And like" and never finish it with "and stuff."
Best,
Luis
(Martinez-Fernandez)
PS: You may want to revise the Tarzanesque structure of your posting: "I'm going to speaking at the Free Library of Philadelphia"
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