Lardner's

As Matthew Bruccoli makes clear in his introduction, Lardner's brilliance as a fiction writer was due in large part to his keen journalist's ear: He did not so much create a new language as reveal one.

Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame Allen Barra 2011

And if not so obviously, Lardner's best subjects tended in their way to be similarly remote from his audience.

In Brief: Sports 2010

Were it settled, we would be spared the hyperbole that amounts to Ring Lardner's "Shut up, he explained."

2010 February - Telic Thoughts 2010

Were it settled, we would be spared the hyperbole that amounts to Ring Lardner's "Shut up, he explained."

About: Blinded by Science 2010

What really impresses about this collection, though, is Lardner's affection for the marginal, the fake and, especially, the half-forgotten.

In Brief: Sports 2010

Lardner's appeal extended far beyond readers of the sports pages: His fans even included Virginia Woolf, who said that Lardner "writes the best prose that has come our way, often in a language which is not English."

Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame Allen Barra 2011

Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and other Italian men of letters for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopædia," and severely pressed by her exertions to give her son an education at Harrow, whither she had removed for the purpose.

Biography in the DNB 2010

A party spokesperson described Lardner's views as "deeply offensive and unacceptable."

Philip Lardner, British Tory Candidate, Suspended For Calling Homosexuality 'Not Normal' 2010

Montgomerie was quick to respond, describing the suspension as "disproportionate" and saying Lardner's views were shared "by many conservative Christians and people of other faiths"

Secret Christian donors bankroll Tories 2010

Lardner's securities, commodities and exchange regulation practice, who represented several clients involved in the mix-up.

NYSE to Cancel Erroneous Trades in US Bancorp Stock 2010