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 Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Laura van den Berg
“My mother was always surprised by time.” —Joy Williams, “Escapes” A beautiful sentence from an exquisitely heart-breaking story that…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Dawn Raffel
“The woman, who is me—why pretend otherwise?—wants to love a man she cannot have.” —The opening salvo of Diane Williams’s…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Gary Amdahl
“He projected himself all day, in thought, straight over the bristling line of hard unconscious heads and into the other,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Andrew Borgstrom
“John’s red sow won’t go / out of labor so we stay all night / and John brings coffee and…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Derek White
—Ampère’s circuital law (with Maxwell’s correction) I love «Ampère’s circuital law (with Maxwell’s correction)» or the whole set…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Jamie Iredell
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” —Henry David Thoreau, in “Walking” It’s not in the complexities of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by William Walsh
“The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed.” —James Joyce, from “Araby,” Dubliners (1914) I was…
