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pearls & perils of reading & writing,
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listed by Title
Books and other works are listed here if the subject work or its review dallies with general ideas about the nature or history or process of writing, of words or language; or the review discusses how a particular work was composed or treated thereafter, and so on. For a partly overlapping companion list oriented more toward literary criticism, see LitCrit at Troynovant.
I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.Stephen Vincent Benet
"American Names" (1931)
| Ado | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Anglo-American Title Changes Interior Translation in English |
RW Franson, JM Franson |
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| Book Packagers' Dos and Don'ts A suggested checklist for Editors, Publishers, & Publicists |
RW Franson | |
| Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey / Barbara Stanwyck | RW Franson |
| Cocoanuts, The | Marx Brothers | RW Franson |
| Cultural Literacy What Every American Needs to Know |
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. | RW Franson |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation |
Lynne Truss | A Cox |
| Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly |
Jane Espenson | RW Franson |
| Freddy and the Bean Home News | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy and the Ignormus | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freedom of Speech | HD Thoreau | |
| Gambit | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers | RW Franson | |
| High School Student Pursing Carrer | RW Franson | |
| In Search of Wonder Essays on Modern Science Fiction |
Damon Knight | RW Franson |
| Lalage's Lovers | George A. Birmingham | RW Franson |
| Lodge in a Garden of Cucumbers, A in Dorothy Sayers, from Isaiah |
RW Franson | |
| Lose the Loose Road-Bumps of Word-Substitution via Misspelling |
RW Franson | |
| More in Sorrow | Wolcott Gibbs | RW Franson |
| Murder by the Book | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Newsletter | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Oxyrhynchus Papyri New Light on Ancient Texts |
RW Franson | |
| Pogo - Through the Wild Blue Wonder The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 [1949-1950] |
Walt Kelly | RW Franson |
| Reporting Vietnam American Journalism 1959-1975 |
[anonymous] | RW Franson |
| Ring of Words, The Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall & Edmund Weiner |
RW Franson |
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Scofflaw: Prohibited Anachronism? | RW Franson | |
| Spanish Gold | George A. Birmingham | RW Franson |
| Speaking through Texts manifest culture; & action this day [compilation] |
RW Franson | |
| Titles for the Common Words Shakespearean Riches in a Little Room |
RW Franson | |
| Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Stephen Greenblatt | RW Franson |
| Years with Ross, The | James Thurber | RW Franson |
[Prospero's island.]
Prospero:
Thou shalt be as free
As mountain winds; but then exactly do
All points of my command.Ariel:
To th' syllable.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest, 1.2.502-505
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NOTICE.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHORMark Twain
Per G. G., Chief of Ordnance.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn speculates that "G. G." most likely is a nod to Twain's friend General Grant, although never actually himself a Chief of Ordnance. — RWF
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