Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenBenjamin Dreyer, the copy chief at Random House, recently published “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style,” which became an immediate best seller. From the years he has spent working with writers, Dreyer knows that opinions about language usage can run very hot. I wouldn’t trust anybody who was in the word business who didn’t maintain a few irrational beliefs. It’s hardly the first time Mallon has made use of real life in his fiction, having written previously about Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, among others. I think that we are in such a bizarre and distressing political time now that those hopes seem pretty futile to me.”

Source: New York Times February 15, 2019 18:56 UTC