For most writers, the em dash is a trusted stylistic tool — versatile, expressive, and a little rebellious. It slides into sentences like a jack-of-all-trades, standing in for commas, parentheses, or ...

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college," said Kurt ...

Hyphenaters used to be fearless. Bad to the bone. Unflinching in the face of multi-word adjectives that required two or even three hyphens. An editor would see the terms “anti” and “social” and “media ...