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About Town:  The New Yorker And The World It Made
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“Equable, affectionate, and comprehensive.” — New York Times Book Review

“Yagoda draws on a huge range of archival material to…give [About Town] a welcome balance and objectivity.” — Christian Science Monitor


How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them
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Ben Yagoda’s How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.


Memoir: A History
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From Augustine’s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris …


The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
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Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what “could be the world’s most readable textbook” (Time Out New York).