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An edition of Poison penmanship (1979)

Poison penmanship

the gentle art of muckraking

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  • 4 Want to read

A collection of 17 article from various newspapers and periodicals, written over 20 years, demonstrating the author's strategies of using humour to protest against what she perceived as wrongs committed by the funeral industry, restaurants, universities and correspondence schools, censors, and others.

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New York Review Books, New York Review of Books, NYRB Classics
Language
English
Pages
288

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Addresses, essays, lectures, Journalism, Creative writing
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Cover of: Poison Penmanship
Poison Penmanship: the Gentle Art of Muckraking
2012, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
in English
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
2010, New York Review Books
in English
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
2010, New York Review Books, New York Review of Books, NYRB Classics
in English
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
2010, New York Review Books
in English
Cover of: Poison Penmanship
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
October 1988, Noonday Pr
in English
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
1980, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage books ed.
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
1979, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Poison penmanship
Poison penmanship: the gentle art of muckraking
1979, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Trial by headline
St. Peter don't you call me
Proceed with caution
You-all and non-you-all
Americans don't want fancy funerals
"Something to offend everyone"
Don't call it syphillis
Maine chance diary
Let us now appraise famous writers
A talk with George Jackson
My short and happy life as a distinguished professor
The best frenemies
Checks and balances at the sign of the dove
The dove strikes back
Waiting for O'Hara
Egyptomania.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070.92
Library of Congress
PN4726 .M55 2010, PN4726.M55 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23962766M
ISBN 13
9781590173558
LCCN
2009050089
OCLC/WorldCat
462881811

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