I wouldn’t necessarily admit this at a cocktail party, but I’m a Milton geek. In fact I still remember the oh-my-god moment I experienced in Butler library reading Stanley Fish’s book on Paradise Lost. (I guess most people’s transcendental teenage reading experiences involve Bukowski or Kerouac?) At any rate, I had to clear the air when Stanley came in for a meeting recently to discuss writing a sort of updated Strunk & White which we’re going to call HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE. “This book changed my life!” I said, awkwardly hoisting a copy of Surprised by Sin in the air. “An oldie but a goodie” Fish replied (the book was written in 1967).

HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE is a celebration of language and rhetoric drawing on examples from Hobbes to Scalia to Elmore Leonard. Fish is the author of the NYT “Think Again” column, and the author of over ten books. We bought world rights from Mel Flashman. I’m psyched.