If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has … - Louis Menand
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has …
- Louis Menand
The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty. - Louis Menand
The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of wha… - Louis Menand
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of wha…
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version … - Louis Menand
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version …
Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a… - Louis Menand
Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a…
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not ma… - Louis Menand
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not ma…
It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is. - Louis Menand
It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they … - Louis Menand
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they …
It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in… - Louis Menand
It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in…
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