Home » Archive

Articles in the Reviews Category

Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[13 Jul 2011 | No Comment | ]
5 funny books to beat the heat from NPR

Write More Good is featured in an article on NPR, Laugh Yourself Cool: 5 Funny Books To Beat The Heat by Dan Kois
“Oh, man, it’s so hot out this summer that you have to laugh. No, I mean it — you have to laugh, because if you’re sitting out on the broiling sand reading something funny and you don’t laugh, you bottle it up, it’ll get dangerous quick. In fact, your body temperature will raise 0.001 of a degree for each laugh you fail to emit. (It’s just science.) That …

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[9 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Recent Reviews and Philadelphia Daily News

Time out for a little fun (The Blood-Red Pencil)
Humorous websites for journalists

Fake out: Twitter group writes the book on its grammar spoof (Philadelphia Daily News)

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Reviews »

[21 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
DFW Quick article and Library Journal review

DFW Quick features an interview with Ken Lowery and selected favorite tweets from the Bureau Chiefs
Write More Good got a starred review in Library Journal’s Xpress Reviews for April 22nd 2011

Bureau Chief Signings, Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Reviews »

[20 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
New Reviews and Bureau Chief News

The Bureau Chiefs Wants You to ‘Write More Good’ (bookotron)
First part of article about Dr. Andrew Kunka’s signing today
Satirical guide says it’s time to LOL at grammar (Chicago Tribune article about Write More Good and Matt Wilson)

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[12 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Life Magazine Gallery and Write More Good Tips

Life Magazine pairs classic photos with writing tips from Write More Good
How to Write News More Good
It comes as a surprise to many non-journalists, but there really is a Bible of reporting: the hugely influential Associated Press Stylebook, which is issued annually with rules on how to (and how not to) write news stories. Little wonder, then, that this sacred cow was lampooned by the Bureau Chiefs, an iconoclastic group of journalists, artists, writers, and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who fashioned their own reporter’s stylebook in the vein of legendary satirist …

Featured, Reviews »

[11 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Glossary Excerpts and More Reviews

Read some of the glossary definitions in Write More Good at the Kirkus blog post ‘Write More Good’: A Guide From @FakeAPStylebook
More Reviews and posts:
FREE ‘Write More Good’ giveaway – just tell us your #jpeeve (SPJ Works)
‘Desperation, perspiration, and grammar advice’: The story behind @FakeAPStyleBook (Ragan’s PR Daily)
Weekend Reading: Maberry, Wes Craven, Tamara Drewe and Dave Dorman (Comix 411)
Book Review: Write More Good (The Great Geek Manual)
read up! (readandblack.com)

Featured, Reviews »

[7 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
More Recent Reviews

“20 percent funny” (Columbia Journalism Review)
Grammar as Punchline: Write More Good (New Yorker Book Bench Blog)
‘Write More Good’ a hilarious spoof on ‘AP Stylebook,’ offers keen insight on what not to do (Central Michigan Life)
How To Write More Good (or, Writing Advice So Bad, You’ll Get Fired… And Laugh About It) (the writer underground)
The ongoing death of print journalism and bizarre bazaars (bookish)
RADAR NYC 4.7.11 (Work Book Project)

@FakeAPStylebook se burla de los errores típicos del periodismo

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Reviews »

[6 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Interviews and Reviews

Interviews
@FakeAPStylebook’s ‘Write More Good’ honors, mocks journalism (poynter.org)
Culture Vulture: Bureau Chiefs: Twitter feeds to book deal (Salt Lake Tribune)
@FakeAPStylebook’s Write More Good (Salt Lake City Weekly)
Reviews
Learn To Write More Better With Fake AP Stylebook’s Write More Good (Splitsider)
Tina Fey’s ‘Bossypants’ Has the Buzz, but Don’t Overlook ‘Write More Good’ (Hispanic Business)
Picked up @FakeAPStylebook’s ‘Write More Good’ today (Bill Kuchman)
‘Write More Good’ a hilarious spoof on ‘AP Stylebook,’ offers keen insight on what not to do (Central Michigan Life)

Bureau Chiefs News, Reviews »

[3 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Learn all about Matt and more reviews

Profile of Bureau Chief Matt Wilson, The Bureau Chief of Chattanooga
Recent Reviews of Write More Good
WRITE MORE GOOD (DigBoston)
AP? Nah. FakeAP’s better (Baltimore Sun, You Don’t Say)
Book Review – Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide by The Bureau Chiefs (Duffbert)

Featured, Reviews »

[31 Mar 2011 | No Comment | ]
Review and pictures

Here’s another review of Write More Good:
Fake AP Stylebook: Now a real book! ” ‘Write More Good’ is the greatest journalism book of all time this year. It’s an instant classic.”
And pictures of books in the wild:

http://twitter.com/Candace07/status/52808624824791041
http://twitter.com/#!/BadAstronomer/status/53204187823091712