Delusions of Grammar
Sara LevineThe sentence as architecture, as opposed to natural excretion of the soul.
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What ABBA Can Do for Your Sentences
Today’s GRAMMAR LESSON is about a nifty little figure called chiasmus. Named after the Greek letter X, “chi,” chiasmus refers to the symmetrical inversion-crossover, also referred to by the pattern ABBA. This is better explained with exampl...
Do Clichés Make You Stupid?
In the 1940’s, as Fascism spread throughout Europe, George Orwell worried that language was going to the dogs.
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel,...
Three quick things
Dear Friends,
My novel THE HITCH will be published on January 13, but if you are willing to waste one minute and eighteen seconds of your life and watch the video above, you will see the book has already been made. It’s such a beautiful ob...
Don't be a Dictator When it Comes to Diction
As a writer you don’t need to study the Indo-European Language map, but it helps your prose style to understand the basic story of English.
Courtesy of Brittanica.com. Reward for those who read the small print: I can’t read a map to save...
Guiding a Reader into the Monster's Claws
Today’s GRAMMAR LESSON is about parallel structure. When I first started teaching, I often came across some gangly sentence and wrote “parallel structure” in the margin, briskly, like a doctor dispensing medicine for a cough. And then one d...
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Writer and teacher. Author of the novels The Hitch (Roxane Gay Books, 2026) and Treasure Island!!! (Europa Editions, 2012).
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