title: How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them
author:  Ben Yagoda 
description: <b>Praise for </b><i><b>Memoir: A History<br></b></i>
zlib_text: How to Not  
  Write Bad
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Ben Yagoda
  
  
  _Memoir: A History_
  
  
  _When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It:  
  The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse_
  
  
  _The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing_
  
  
  _About Town:_ The New Yorker _and the World It Made_
  
  
  _Will Rogers: A Biography_
  
  
  _The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of  
  Literary Journalism_ (coeditor)
  
  
  _All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography_ (with Ruth Westheimer)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  How to Not  
  Write Bad
  
  
  ![](../images/00007.jpeg)
  
  
  The Most Common  
  Writing Problems and  
  the Best Ways to  
  Avoid Them
  
  
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  BEN YAGODA
  
  
  RIVERHEAD BOOKS
  
  
  _New York_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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