The African Svelte

Orthographic Mistakes and Miss Spellings That Often Make Sense

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Author:

Menaker, Daniel

Illustrator:

Chast, Roz

Foreword by:

Collins, Billy

ISBN:

978-0-544-80063-2

Publication Date:

Oct 2016

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $20.00

Book Description:

Inspired by his tenure at the New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes with erudite commentary by the author, illustrations by Roz Chast, and a Foreword from Billy Collins

Book Details

Pages:	256
Detailed Subjects:	Humor / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5 x 7 x 0.92 Inches
Book Weight:	0.616 Pounds

Author Biography

Menaker, Daniel (Author)

Robert Daniel Menaker was born on September 17, 1941 in New York City. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Menaker was executive editor in chief at Random House and was a senior fiction editor at the New Yorker magazine for more than 25 years. His books include "Friends and Relations," a collection of short stories (1976), The Old Left and Other Stories (1987), and "The Treatment," a novel (1998). His more recent work includes, A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation (2010), and My Mistake, a memoir (2013). Daniel Menaker died on October 26, 2020. He was 79.

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