| August 29, 2007 |
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The Elements of Style: The Movie
 Maira Kalman's got style. The New York-based artist has created witty covers for The New Yorker; a now-iconic umbrella sold at MoMA; and exuberant children's books, often featuring the soulful antics of a poet-dog philosopher named Max. So it's not surprising that sparks flew when Maira encountered "The Elements of Style," the classic primer on writing by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. What is surprising, though, is how strongly the design enthusiast took to the little book. First, she astonished everyone by producing an illustrated version of the composition guide. Now, to our enormous delight, she's created a movie version. Yes, a movie version. The little tome on when to use commas, and where to inject quotations, and how to strip sentences back to their essential parts has been translated artfully to the (very) small screen. So settle back and enjoy. We like to think E.B. White himself would have approved.
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