The Writer's Art

“A witty, entertaining, and enlightening antidote to sloppy, inflated, vague, or dull prose.” — Publishers Weekly Writing comes in grades of quality in the fashion of beer and baseball games—good, better, and best.   With the experience of a lifetime spent writing, James J. Kilpatrick wants to make a few judgment calls. Here, in the great tradition of Theodore Bernstein, Edwin Newman, and William Safire, a master of the art gives us a finely crafted, witty guide to writing well. Intended fo