[What's New for Book-Lovers] ‘Style’ Gets New Elements - New York Times

October 19, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

‘Style’ Gets New Elements - New York Times:

while “The Elements of Style” has never lacked fans or dutiful adherents, appreciation for this slim volume takes a turn toward the whimsical and even surreal this week, as the Penguin Press publishes the first illustrated edition, featuring artwork by Maira Kalman, and the young composer Nico Muhly offers a finely wrought “Elements of Style” song cycle, to be given its premiere tonight at 8 in a highly unusual, if oddly appropriate, concert setting: the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library.

In the new clothbound edition, Ms. Kalman’s whimsical paintings are sprinkled through the text, often responding to the wry or quirky examples the authors chose to enliven what might otherwise have been a dry discussion of grammatical rules. On the topic of pronoun cases, they offer: “Polly loves cake more than she loves me.” On the uses of the dash: “His first thought on getting out of bed - if he had any thought at all - was to get back in again.” Ms. Kalman had no shortage of material.

A great gift for a young book-lover, to set them on the right path.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/19/2005 08:22:00 AM

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