Recently I sat down at my computer and had some exchanges with Ravi Mangla. Ravi lives Fairport, New York (near Rochester). His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Annalemma, Sleepingfish and others. He created a site called Recommended Reading last May. Close to fifty writers have weighed in with lists and entertaining answers to Ravi’s questions. His [...]
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Writers Stew: Mangla vs. Gerke
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anton Chekhov, Corium Magazine, Gary Lutz, Greg Gerke, Ravi Mangla, Raymond Carver, Recommended Reading, Wigleaf on January 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ammon Shea, Chicago Manual of Style, David Foster Wallace, Diane Stevenson, Gary Lutz, Grammar Desk Reference, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Modern American Usage, Oxford English Dictionary, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The Element of Style, The New Well-Tempered Sentence on December 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary and then written a memoir about it? When I’d heard about him I became jealous. Ever since I can remember I’ve wanted to read an entire dictionary. I’ve never done it though. I have, however, read some [...]
Sage Advice from Gary Lutz
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Lutz, The Sentence Is a Lonely Place, We Are Champion on December 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Check out a new interview with Gary Lutz at We Are Champion. An excerpt: One piece of advice would be to slow down. It doesn’t matter if it takes you all night or two nights or even longer to write one sentence. Every sentence should feel like the nucleus of the story in which it [...]
Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Ohle, Diane Williams, Gary Lutz, Gordon Lish, Ron Silliman, The New Sentence on November 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a unit of quantity, not logic or argument; 3) Sentence length is a unit of measure; 4) Sentence structure is altered for torque, or increased polysemy/ambiguity; 5) Syllogistic movement is (a) limited (b) controlled; 6) Primary syllogistic movement is [...]
Break Every Rule, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Break Every Rule, Brian Evenson, Carole Maso, Gary Lutz, The Shelter of the Alphabet, William Gass on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule is a quiet, elegant book of essays. Every sentence here is a gem. Remember that time you walked barefoot across a pebbled beach, marveled at every sea-bitten thing, picked up some bright form that warmed your palm, that had some power in it. That’s what it’s like reading Maso. The [...]
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