Verb Your Enthusiasm

Hurrah! Let’s brush up on our verbs, people! Sarah Kaufman is the perfect writer for this important subject … Anyone who cares about writing should tickertape this book’s publication. – Lynne TrussLike all first-rate writing on language, it’s also a meditation on existence … an almost shockingly adroit guide to how to make every word count. Writers – fledgling and expert – will find much here that’s practically useful, stimulating, and enlightening; All readers, I think, will benefit from Kaufman’s graceful exhortation to wield language effectively and – in an era of confounding obfuscation – honestly. – Benjamin DreyerThoroughly enjoyable … genuinely, wholeheartedly entertaining … Fascinatingly, Verb Your Enthusiasm has its style recommendations backed up with science. It’s strong evidence of how verbs ‘shape our memories and imagination.’ As a keen new member of Kaufman’s verb fan club, though, I needed no convincing. – Ceci Browning * The Sunday Times *This is a manifesto I can really get behind. * Evening Standard *

Sarah L. Kaufman was the Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic of the Washington Post, where she wrote for 27 years. She is the author of The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life, and writes about the arts, entertainment, and society for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books, among others.

Kaufman has taught writing courses at Harvard, American University, the National Critics Institute, and Princeton, where she was a McGraw Professor of Writing. She has received journalism fellowships from the Nieman Foundation and the French-American Foundation.

She has three children and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, in the Appalachian mountains.

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