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Deadbeat Commas
Somehow I got through college without reading anything by Gertrude Stein and now I really wish I had. Recently I was introduced to her stylized writing in the book, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey. Florey describes Stein as a fan of sentence diagramming, but not exactly a follower of the proper grammar it is meant to teach.
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One of my favorite places to see typography used in innovative and varied ways is the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The Society of Publication Designers' Winners Gallery has an impressive archive of award-winning layouts, many of them from the Times magazine.
