Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence—especially if it occurs toward the end—or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of ear, Virginia [...]
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August 4, 2008
Reader’s Block
A great article titled Lost For Words in The Guardian’s G2 about Briton’s declining reading habit. One quarter of Britons say they have not read a book in the past year. We also tend to buy “challenging literature” that we don’t read, like Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. In my case, [...]
