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Eli Burnstein is a humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Weekly Humorist. His debut book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (Union Square & Co), was a Toronto Star bestseller described by Steven Pinker as "a tribute to the genius of the human mind for conceptual precision and the beauty of the English language in capturing it."

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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning

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