Reviews
"An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly." --Elizabeth Strout "A mind-blower--sure to jumpstart any writing project, just by exposing you, the writer, to Dreyer's astonishing level of sentence-awareness." --George Saunders "Farewell, Strunk and White. Benjamin Dreyer's brilliant, pithy, incandescently intelligent book is to contemporary writing what Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry was to medieval English: a gift that broadens and deepens the art and the science of literature by illustrating that convention should not stand in the way of creativity, so long as that creativity is expressed with clarity and with conviction." --Jon Meacham "It is Benjamin Dreyer's intense love for the English language and his passion for the subject that make the experience of reading Dreyer's English such a pleasure, almost regardless of the invaluable and practical purpose his book serves in such dark and confusing times for grammar and meaning." --Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon "If Oscar Wilde had wanted to be helpful as well as brilliant, if E. B. White and Noël Coward had had a wonderful little boy who grew up to cherish and model clarity, the result would be Benjamin Dreyer and his frankly perfect book. Anyone who writes anything should have a copy by their computer, and perhaps another on the nightstand, just for pleasure." --Amy Bloom " Dreyer's English is essential to anyone who cares about language. It's as smart and funny as Dreyer is himself. He makes you smile and makes you smarter at the same time." --Lyle Lovett "Like Dreyer himself, this book reassures as it teaches. The reader never feels spoken down to, as in so many other style guides, but is instead lifted up, inspired to communicate with more clarity and zing. I'll be buying this for friends." --Brian Koppelman, co-creator and showrunner of Billions "This work is that rare writing handbook that writers might actually want to read straight through, rather than simply consult." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly." --Elizabeth Strout "Farewell, Strunk and White. Benjamin Dreyer's brilliant, pithy, incandescently intelligent book is to contemporary writing what Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry was to medieval English: a gift that broadens and deepens the art and the science of literature by illustrating that convention should not stand in the way of creativity, so long as that creativity is expressed with clarity and with conviction. Dreyer's English does more than exhort us to do better. It offers us an example of what it's like to be the best." --Jon Meacham "It is Benjamin Dreyer's intense love for the English language and his passion for the subject that make the experience of reading Dreyer's English such a pleasure, almost regardless of the invaluable and practical purpose his book serves in such dark and confusing times for grammar and meaning." --Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon "If Oscar Wilde had wanted to be helpful as well as brilliant, if E. B. White and Noël Coward had had a wonderful little boy who grew up to cherish and model clarity, the result would be Benjamin Dreyer and his frankly perfect book. Anyone who writes anything should have a copy by their computer, and perhaps another on the nightstand, just for pleasure." --Amy Bloom " Dreyer's English is essential to anyone who cares about language. It's as smart and funny as Dreyer is himself. He makes you smile and makes you smarter at the same time." --Lyle Lovett "Like Dreyer himself, this book reassures as it teaches. The reader never feels spoken down to, as in so many other style guides, but instead lifted up, inspired to communicate with more clarity and zing. I'll be buying this for friends." --Brian Koppelman, co-creator and showrunner of Billions "This work is that rare writing handbook that writers might actually want to read straight through, rather than simply consult." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "An essential (and delightful!) grammar guide . . . interwoven with cultural history and lively self-revelation, this bracing manual will up your game even if all you're writing is emails." -- People (Book of the Week) "Playful, smart, self-conscious, and personal . . . One encounters wisdom and good sense on nearly every page of Dreyer's English ." -- The Wall Street Journal "Destined to become a classic." -- The Millions "Brimming with wit and revelatory wisdom, this style manual-cum-linguistic jubilee from Random House's copy chief . . . entertains as it enlightens." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly." --Elizabeth Strout "A mind-blower--sure to jumpstart any writing project, just by exposing you, the writer, to Dreyer's astonishing level of sentence-awareness." --George Saunders "Farewell, Strunk and White. Benjamin Dreyer's brilliant, pithy, incandescently intelligent book is to contemporary writing what Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry was to medieval English: a gift that broadens and deepens the art and the science of literature by illustrating that convention should not stand in the way of creativity, so long as that creativity is expressed with clarity and with conviction." --Jon Meacham "It is Benjamin Dreyer's intense love for the English language and his passion for the subject that make the experience of reading Dreyer's English such a pleasure, almost regardless of the invaluable and practical purpose his book serves in such dark and confusing times for grammar and meaning." --Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon "If Oscar Wilde had wanted to be helpful as well as brilliant, if E. B. White and Noël Coward had had a wonderful little boy who grew up to cherish and model clarity, the result would be Benjamin Dreyer and his frankly perfect book. Anyone who writes anything should have a copy by their computer, and perhaps another on the nightstand, just for pleasure." --Amy Bloom " Dreyer's English is essential to anyone who cares about language. It's as smart and funny as Dreyer is himself. He makes you smile and makes you smarter at the same time." --Lyle Lovett "Like Dreyer himself, this book reassures as it teaches. The reader never feels spoken down to, as in so many other style guides, but is instead lifted up, inspired to communicate with more clarity and zing. I'll be buying this for friends." --Brian Koppelman, co-creator and showrunner of Billions "This work is that rare writing handbook that writers might actually want to read straight through, rather than simply consult." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
