Joe Moran

Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and is the author of seven books, including Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV, Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness and First You Write a Sentence. He writes for, among others, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.

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Joe Moran (and Other Writers) on the Basic Building Blocks of Writing

August 30, 2019 By Joe Moran

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In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

Frank Sinatra. Now There's a Guy Who Could String Together a Lotta Words.

December 12, 2018 By Joe Moran

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