Ink in Your Veins

Verbs as the Secret Soul of Language, with Sarah L. Kaufman

Ink in Your Veins

Show Notes

If you’re wanting to make your writing stronger (immediately), don’t skip this one! Better, stronger verbs will change everything!

Sarah L. Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, a writing teacher, and an award-winning author. Her newest book is VERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: How to Master the Art of the Verb and Transform Your Writing. Sarah was the chief dance critic of The Washington Post, where she wrote about the arts, entertainment, and society for 27 years. She also writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Monocle magazine, among others. Her debut book, The Art of Grace, was a Washington Post Notable Book, and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and a Spirituality & Practice Award. Sarah was a 2024 Penn State Foster-Foreman Distinguished Writer, and she has taught at Harvard, American University, and Princeton, where she was a McGraw Professor of Writing. She has received journalism fellowships from the Nieman Foundation and French-American Foundation, and she is currently working on her next book.

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