Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says... Orwell on Writing: 'Clarity Is the Remedy' Call them ...

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Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. All Things Considered talks with writers about their ...