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Ben Yagoda
Will Rogers : a biography
by Ben Yagoda
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13 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Biography of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers discussing his career and personal life
All in a lifetime : an autobiography
by Ruth K Westheimer
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12 editions published between 1987 and 2002 in English and held by 1,516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide To the world, she is everyone's favorite sex therapist; a four-foot-seven-inch dynamo who answers our most intimate questions with disarming candor and heartening warmth. Yet few people know the real Dr. Ruth -- her loves, her losses, and the irrepressible spirit that has helped her through it all. Here, for the first time ever, Dr. Ruth opens her heart ... and the pages of her girlhood diaries to share her remarkable life story. Meet the child orphaned by the Holocaust, the Israeli soldier wounded on her twentieth birthday, and the citizen of the world who has called five countries home. A revealing autobiography of a fighter who has survived heartache with her spirit intact, All in a Lifetime offers a close and personal look at a courageous and very loving woman
The value of family : a blueprint for the 21st century
by Ruth K Westheimer
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7 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,075 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "This books shows both how the family evolved to where it is today and how it can and will survive."--Jacket
When you catch an adjective, kill it : the parts of speech for better and/or worse
by Ben Yagoda
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5 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 1,000 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Introduces the nine parts of speech in the English language, with guidelines on how to use adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs appropriately
About town : the New Yorker and the world it made
by Ben Yagoda
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10 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "About Town tells fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker's archives, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET
Memoir : a history
by Ben Yagoda
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4 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An analysis of the memoir as a literary art form considers stories written by some of the world's most famous contributors while examining the controversial nature of the fraudulent memoir and its role in shaping collective memories
The sound on the page : style and voice in writing
by Ben Yagoda
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10 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and held by 709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Draws on interviews with forty leading contemporary authors to discuss the importance of individual style on literature, citing the distinguishing practices of today's top writers while making recommendations to serious readers and aspiring writers
The art of fact : a historical anthology of literary journalism
by Kevin Kerrane
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10 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing what used to be called "new" journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. The tradition is alive and well in stories that take us from a cantina in Los Angeles to a lesbian bar in Dublin, from a massacre in Tiananmen Square to a nonviolent revolution in the Philippines. This international emphasis links American literary journalists to their counterparts in England, Africa, and Russia
How to not write bad : the most common writing problems and the best ways to avoid them
by Ben Yagoda
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6 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Offers a guide for crafting sentences and paragraphs that are both effective and interesting and that combine clarity with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar
The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College : the first 75 years
by Ben Yagoda
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The sound on the page : style and voice in writing today
by Ben Yagoda
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The value of family
by Ruth Westheimer
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1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Literary techniques in non-fiction writing
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1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Panelists discussed how authors use creative techniques in nonfiction works. The panelists felt it is important to get to know the characters so well that you know how they would react, but never embellish the characters."--Videocassette container
American writers in Paris
by Ben Yagoda
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1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New Yorker magazine's 75th anniversary
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Past and present contributors spoke about their work for the New Yorker, the style of the magazine, and its appeal to readers."--Label on videocassette container
Legacy of a kidnapping
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1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
About town : the New Yorker and the world it made
by Ben Yagoda
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
Abusage and usage a panel on language with Mark Liberman, Erin McKean, John McWhorter and Ben Yagoda, moderated by Carolyn Marvin
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide Join us for an evening of etymologic mayhem, sensational syntactic investigation, and grammar gone wild with Mark Liberman, editor of Language Log, co-author of Far From the Madding Gerund, and Professor of Phonetics in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania; Erin McKean, Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Program and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words; John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics, NPR commentator, and best-selling author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care; and Ben Yagoda, freelance journalist and Professor of English whose books include The Sound on the Page and If You Catch an Adjective Kill It. The evening will be moderated by Carolyn Marvin, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication
Sock it to me? Satire and parody
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide The final episode in a six-part series chronicling how comedy has defined the nation's character with commentary by film historians, comedians, writers and producers, spotlighting comedians through the generations who broke the rules to advance the genre. Episode six includes clips and discussions of Will Rogers, Abbot and Costello, Sid Caesar, Johnny Carson, Tom Hehrer, Alan Sherman, song lyrics by Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman, Carol Burnett, Mel Brooks, Laugh In, Saturday Night Live, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Includes commentary on the current practice of politicians using appearances on talk shows to promote their political careers
The True Story of Bernarr MacFadden
by Ben Yagoda
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1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide The life and loves of the father of the Confession Magazine more
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