Tag Archives: E.B. White

The Distant Music of the Hounds

By R.A. Schenck | Published: December 25, 2011

Skimming through a new book of E.B. White quotations led me to a short essay he wrote about Christmas, which is luckily available online in The New Yorker’s archive section:
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. There was a little device we noticed in one of the sporting-goods stores – [...]

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The Elements of Style, Illustrated

By R.A. Schenck | Published: July 14, 2011

While I still prefer my ragged dog-eared paperback edition of The Elements of Style, this nicely bound hardcover version is nice to flip through on occasion for inspiration and is always within arm’s reach on my desk.
Its illustrator Maira Kalman has also worked on other notable projects and was recently featured in the [...]

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