When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse - Ben Yagoda

BEN YAGODA teaches English at the University of Delaware, and is the author of four books, including The Sound on the Page and About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. He has contributed to Slate.com, the New York Times Book Review , the American Scholar, Rolling Stone and Esquire , and writes an occasional column on language for the Chronicle of Higher Education . He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.