Frankenstrunk
Frankenstrunk - The Boston Globe
JUST IN TIME for Halloween, it's back: Yet another edition of ''The Elements of Style," William Strunk and E.B. White's persistently popular guidebook for writers. And this time it's in costume, decked out with dozens of gay, whimsical illustrations by Maira Kalman (interviewed in this week's Examined Life column).But ''The Elements"'s new clothes can't hide the worsening limp and spackled complexion that plague this aging zombie of a book.
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