A colon followed by a dash
There’s a a name for it.
Raymond Carver on words and punctuation
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they can best say what they are meant to say.”
DFW, “Your Liberal-Arts $ at Work”
“Pedantry is always tiresome, but it’s especially tiresome when the pedant doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
Some rock’s
“Householders, if you must proclaim your glory to the passerby, think of the way bands manage their names: The Beatles. Or better: The Smiths. Plural, not possessive.”
Bad hyphens, unhelpful abbreviations
Daughter Number Three looks at bad hyphens and unhelpful postal abbreviations.