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Vice Magazine Interviews Bryan A. Garner

Vice is an online magazine for perverts and degenerates, and so seeing this interview with stuffed shirt Bryan A. Garner was surprising. I've read all of Garner's books, and just downloaded his Modern American Usage to my iPad. (This wasn't a great idea, as finding entries on the Kindle version of GMAU is cumbersome. It's still preferable to lugging the paper version around the dog park.) When a law student asked me for advice on writing, I told him to read everything Garner has written. In 2002, a famous trial lawyer told me, before he'd ever let me work for him, that I had to read The Winning Brief.  Circle of life and blah-blah-blah. The interview is good, even if you're not a stuffed shirt. However, Garner gives one piece of medicore advice: Vice: Any more concrete advice [on becoming a better writer]? Garner: You have to write a lot...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 24, 2010 (boomark / email).