Memoir

By Ben Yagoda

From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir.From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Juli...

How to Not Write Bad

By Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the abil...

The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College

By Ben Yagoda

How to Not Write Bad

By Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the abil...

The B side the death of Tin Pan Alley and the rebirth of the great American song

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Memoir

By Ben Yagoda

The B Side

By Ben Yagoda

From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era. Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it’s a bit less widely under...

O. Henry: 101 Stories (LOA 345)

By O. Henry Ben Yagoda Ed.

The ultimate O. Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America's master storytellerTexas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter—better known as...

Will Rogers

By Ben Yagoda

The B Side

By Ben Yagoda

From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era. Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it’s a bit less widely under...