“He was the kind of boy I used to close my eyes, reach into my underwear and build from scratch.”…
A sentence about a sentence I love.
“It hung in the air exactly the way bricks don’t.”–Hitchhikker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams There are sentences I…
The fate of being a critic
These are thoughts inspired, in part, by Shya’s recent post about ambition, but mostly by a question Maureen asked me…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling
“There was a wall.” This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…
A Paragraph about a Paragraph I Love (Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Three Blondes and Death)
[Update 30 April 11: If you like this passage, check out my interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky: Part 1 | Part…
Guest Post, by Darby Larson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“They had heard or had heard said or had heard said written.” –From James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Guest Post, by Mike Young: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“Suttree could hear the wheels shucking along the rails and he could feel the ground shudder and he could hear…
Leopard Arms
I’ve been reading the Harp & Altar Anthology and especially loved Leni Zumas’s Leopard Arms, which, since Harp & Altar…
Are you feeling ambitious?
This post will serve double duty. First, it will point you toward John Madera’s excellent and informed monthly reading round-up…