Reading time: Just over 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from writer Rachel Cusk…. Rachel Cusk is not much interested in plot. Or characters. Her widely praised 2014 novel Outline […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from American writer Emily Nussbaum…. I like writers who are funny. Add a dash of insightful, and I like them even more.
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Belinda Luscombe…. I was browsing in my local discount bookstore, waiting to go for lunch with a friend, when
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. I had never heard of the writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner, then I started seeing her name everywhere. On
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from John von Sothen…. I will never buy a book because it has a pretty or interesting or compelling cover. But I
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from American writer Mary Grimm…. I’d never before read any of the work of Mary Grimm, pictured above, a professor of English
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Craig Brown…. I’m not normally terribly interested in what the royal family might be up to. But when I heard (via
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Reading time: Just over 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 writer Ellen Barry…. Ellen Barry is a London-based international correspondent for The New York Times, covering immigration, security, demographics and culture
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about the metaphorical language of Ottessa Moshfegh…. Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist who was born in Boston with a Croatian mother and an Iranian-Jewish father.
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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 metaphors from Jo Hamya… Joyce Hamya is a young British novelist from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She graduated
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