“Give me your wealthy, your rich, your huddled M.B.A.s yearning to be tax-free. Send these, your English-speaking, fully insured, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door! And lift my leg upon your filthy poor. P.S. No fatties, …
At 12 noon on January 20th, I was with the President. The 33rd President. I happened to be in Key West, where over 20 years earlier I’d really enjoyed a visit to Harry Truman’s Little White House. I decided to …
Perhaps you saw the recent article in The New York Times under the provocative headline “Have We Been Playing Gershwin Wrong for 70 Years?” It’s about his beloved An American In Paris, a symphonic tone poem that features the distinctive …
In a bit of journalistic serendipity, I happened to hear Carl Bernstein speak at a small luncheon just a few days before Ben Bradlee’s death. Bradlee has been rightly eulogized as a giant of American journalism. But seeing Bernstein at …
One of our missions here at re:Write is to help people learn how to write better, by, among other things, following the rules of grammar and avoiding corporate-speak. So imagine our surprise and delight when we saw two of Weird …
How writers write seems to be an endlessly fascinating subject (at least for writers). Recently, Olivia Laing has been getting good reviews for The Trip To Echo Spring, a book about famous writers who found inspiration in the bottle. A …
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Here at re:Write, we like to cite various experts on the importance of good writing, and how to accomplish it. People like Alexander Pope, and Edward R. Murrow. But today, in the words of the old Hebrew National hotdog ad, …
We like to talk about excellent writing here at re:Write. Today, we celebrate a work with roots in a rich oral tradition, but which is nevertheless an outstanding example of how the pen can indeed be mightier than the sword …
A long time ago, I heard the term “bootstrapping” described as a journalistic no-no in the newspaper world. It meant inflating the credibility of a source. I haven’t seen the word used that way in years, but I see examples …
Your typical mission statement is a glowing, intended-to-be inspiring description of everything an enterprise believes in. But the other day I read an article arguing that one way to establish your brand is to proclaim what you stand against. And …