When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It

BEN YAGODA teaches English at the University of Delaware, and is the author of four books, includingThe Sound on the PageandAbout Town:The New Yorkerand the World It Made.He has contributed toSlate.com,theNew York Times Book Review, theAmerican Scholar, Rolling StoneandEsquire, and writes an occasional column on language for theChronicle of Higher Education. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.Yagoda, Ben is the author of 'When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It', published 2007 under ISBN 9780767920780 and ISBN 0767920783.