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Helen Sword's Pleasurable Notes

"Containers for chaos”

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Jillian Hess
Jan 27, 2025
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Among the many joys of writing this newsletter is getting to meet some of my writing-heroes—not least among them, the great Helen Sword. It is not an understatement to say that Helen taught me how to write academic prose through her books such as Stylish Academic Writing, Air & Light & Time & Space, The Writer’s Diet, and most recently, Writing with Pleasure.

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