Nobody is untouched by gossip. We dish it. We listen to it. Or, least desirably, we are the subject of it. One definition of gossip is “bits of news about the personal affairs of others.” We gossip …
Last year, literary critic Joseph Epstein wrote The best book on the art of writing that I know is F. L. Lucas’ Style: The Art of Writing Well. At the time of Epstein’s comments, the book …