Mark Samples's votes on the list Short Writing Trove

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1	How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark 3.77 avg rating — 1,256 ratings Mark added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner 4.60 avg rating — 1,066 ratings Mark rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism by James Geary (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 215 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less – The Authorized Collection of Clever Celebrity Comedy by Nick Douglas (Goodreads Author) 3.09 avg rating — 558 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer by Robert Swartwood (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 758 ratings Mark added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	How to Write Attention-getting Memos, Letters, and E-mails by Arthur H. Bell 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd 3.84 avg rating — 438 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little by Christopher Johnson (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 295 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said by Robert Byrne 3.64 avg rating — 431 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott 4.10 avg rating — 2,128 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	World According to Twitter by David Pogue 3.57 avg rating — 171 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms – An Intimate Anthology of Personal Essays and Photographs by Eva Talmadge (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 894 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused and Concise by William Brohaugh 4.03 avg rating — 240 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Writer's Chapbook A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers by George Plimpton 4.17 avg rating — 147 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Assorted Prose by John Updike 3.80 avg rating — 92 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 4.20 avg rating — 6,188 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills 4.16 avg rating — 8,588 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward by Isaac Metzker (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 255 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Signposts to Elsewhere by Yahia Lababidi (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook by Dorothy Carnegie 3.75 avg rating — 101 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall (Goodreads Author) 3.24 avg rating — 683 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Viking Book of Aphorisms, A personal Selection by W.H. Auden 3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	420 Characters by Lou Beach 3.54 avg rating — 774 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Best of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 3.98 avg rating — 223 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English by Cor van den Heuvel (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 564 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Epigrams by Oscar Wilde 4.17 avg rating — 269 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters by Joseph Sugarman 4.14 avg rating — 1,568 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz 3.63 avg rating — 2,514 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin by Rosemary Ahern (Editor) 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse by Ben Yagoda 3.75 avg rating — 397 ratings Mark added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars