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AP Style Guide (condensed version of Associated Press Stylebook)
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Avoiding Comma Splices (an interactive guide)
Profnet (help in finding quotable experts)
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Common Errors in English
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New York Times Public Editor (see also Web Journal)
ESPN Ombudsman George Solomon
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Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
The Simpsons Archive
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (full text)
Bestbookdeal.com
Internet Movie Database (comprehensive source of cinema information)
Allmusic.com (popular music database)
"A Great Day in Harlem"
Chiasmus.com (all about, that's right, chiasmus)
The Smoking Gun (documents in the public domain)
Who's Alive and Who's Dead
Gethuman database (how to reach a real live customer-service human)
International Currency Converter
Letterman's Top Ten Lists
Epicurious.com (recipe database, with more than 12,000 recipes)
Food Network Recipes (more than 15,000 of 'em)
Roadfood (via Jane and Michael Stern)
Jazz Fest (New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival)
Late Night Jokes
Gender Genie (Key in a text--it will predict whether a man or woman was the author)
Abebooks
Bobdylan.com
Easily Distracted (Tim Burke's blog)
Wordcount (Most frequently used words in the English language)
Arts and Letters Daily
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Language Hat
Emdashes (Blog about The New Yorker and related subjects)
James Wolcott's Blog
Yagoda Books (click cover to purchase!)
If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse (Broadway Books, 2006)
The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing (HarperResource, 2004)
About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000)
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, coedited with Kevin Kerrane (Scribner, 1997)
Will Rogers: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993; University of Oklahoma Press, paper, 2000)
"My Life as a Hack" (Slate, 10/26/05)
"The Subtitle That Changed America" (New York Times Book Review, 2/20/05)
"American Idioms Have Gone Missing" (Chronicle of Higher Education)
"Style: A Pleasure for the Reader, or the Writer?" (Chronicle of Higher Education)
"The Adjective--So Ludic, So Minatory, So Twee" (Chronicle of Higher Education)
"24/7 With the Cliche Expert" (Chronicle of Higher Education)
"The Case of the Overrated Mystery Novel" (Salon)
"Going Deep--How Gary Smith Became America's Best Sportswriter" (Slate)
"The 9/11 Commission Report--How a Government Committee Made a Piece of Literature" (Slate)
"Johnny Cash on Demand--Tribute Songs to the Man in Black" (Slate)
"What Shall We Call the Professor?" (Swarthmore College Alumni Magazine)