Quack this Way

Quack this Way
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Penrose Pub
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9780979606038

Two friends, both of them vocational snoots, sat down to film an interview in February 2006. Their subjects: language and writing. The interviewee drove more than an hour, from Claremont to downtown Los Angeles. The interviewer flew from Dallas. They spoke on film for 67 minutes and then walked uphill to a nearby seafood restaurant, where they continued the running conversation they had started five years earlier. They liked each other, and they seemed to understand each other. The rest is history. This is the last long interview with David Foster Wallace.

The David Foster Wallace Reader

The David Foster Wallace Reader
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 1443
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0316329177

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person." Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students. A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of "one of America's most daring and talented writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Garner's Modern American Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195161912

Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.

Giggle, Giggle, Quack/Ready-to-Read Level 2

Giggle, Giggle, Quack/Ready-to-Read Level 2
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481465457

The sequel to the New York Times and Caldecott Honor–winning Click, Clack, Moo is now available as a Level 2 Ready-to-Read! Farmer Brown is going on vacation. He asks his brother, Bob, to take care of the animals. “But keep an eye on Duck. He’s trouble.” Bob follows the instructions in Farmer Brown’s notes exactly. He orders pizza with anchovies for the hens, bathes the pigs with bubble bath, and lets the cows choose a movie. Is that he giggling he hears? Giggle, giggle quack, giggle, moo, giggle, oink… The duck, the cows, the hens, and the pigs are back in top form in this hilarious follow-up to the beloved Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.

Garner on Language and Writing

Garner on Language and Writing
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604424454

Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Author: Stephen Burn
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617032271

Conversations with the author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Infinite Jest

Make Way for Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings
Author: Robert McCloskey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1999-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110165483X

"Robert McCloskey's unusual and stunning pictures have long been a delight for their fun as well as their spirit of place."—The Horn Book Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get them there through the busy streets of Boston. But with a little help from the Boston police, Mrs. Mallard and Jack, Kack, Lack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack arive safely at their new home. This brilliantly illustrated, amusingly observed tale of Mallards on the move has won the hearts of generations of readers. Awarded the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children in 1941, it has since become a favorite of millions. This classic tale of the famous Mallard ducks of Boston is available for the first time in a full-sized paperback edition. Make Way for Ducklings has been described as "one of the merriest picture books ever" (The New York Times). Ideal for reading aloud, this book deserves a place of honor on every child's bookshelf. "This delightful picture book captures the humor and beauty of one special duckling family. ... McClosky's illustrations are brilliant and filled with humor. The details of the ducklings, along with the popular sights of Boston, come across wonderfully. The image of the entire family proudly walking in line is a classic."—The Barnes & Noble Review "The quaint story of the mallard family's search for the perfect place to hatch ducklings. ... For more than fifty years kids have been entertained by this warm and wonderful story."—Children's Literature

Little Quack

Little Quack
Author: Lauren Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2005-01-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689876459

One by one, four ducklings find the courage to jump into the pond and paddle with Mama Duck, until only Little Quack is left in the nest, trying to be brave.

Little Quack's New Friend

Little Quack's New Friend
Author: Lauren Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689868936

Little Quack makes friends with Litte Ribbit the frog.

Quack!

Quack!
Author: Phyllis Root
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2010-02-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763648809

Follows five little ducklings as they flip their wings, wobble their tails, follow their mother in a dash, find a puddle, and splash! On board pages.