Figurative language

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. Taffy Brodesser-Akner is is an American journalist and author. She became a full-time staff writer for The New York Times […]

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Dennis Lehane….. American author Dennis Lehane has published more than a dozen novels and achieved fame not just as a novelist but as someone whose

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Elena Ferrante…. I came late to the Elena Ferrante parade. The pseudonymous Italian novelist published the first of her four famous novels — known collectively

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from John Vaillant…. John Vaillant is a writer and journalist who was born and raised in Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. His work has appeared

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Claire Keegan…. Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Mary Gaitskill… Is it possible to loathe a book and yet still be overwhelmingly impressed by the author? That is certainly how

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes by Jonathan Coe…. Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer interested in political issues, satire and music. A graduate of Trinity College,

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Sy Montgomery… Described by the Boston Globe as, “part Indiana Jones and part Emily Dickinson,” Sy Montgomery is an American naturalist, author

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from Kate Atkinson… I became a fan of the English novelist Kate Atkinson many years ago when I read her 1995 Whitbread-winning book, Behind the Scenes