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Further Crimes Against the Humanities

Published on July 18, 2011 By B. E. Hopkins

A few months ago, I wrote a short post called “Crimes Against the Humanities” that included a list of appalling assaults on good writing committed in a recently published bestseller. Last week, I finished editing another title in which the English language, common sense, and storytelling itself all took a brutal pummeling. There are two [...]

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