Reading time: Just over 1 minute A great way to improve your writing is to emulate the work of others. That’s why, every week, I present a sentence that I’d happily imitate. I comment today on a sentence written by Hendrik Hertzberg I read the New Yorker enthusiastically but unreliably. So, to keep the magazines from […]
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Word count: 247 words Reading time: About 1 minute A great way to improve your writing is to emulate the work of others. That’s why, every week, I present a sentence that I’d happily imitate. Today, I write about a sentence by Lucy Grealy. Lucy Grealy wrote deeply moving memoir, Autobiography of a Face, as I
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Word count: 237 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute A great way to improve your writing is to emulate the work of others. That’s why, every week, I present a sentence that I’d happily imitate. Today’s comes from Will Ferguson… I wrote yesterday about the political-psychological thriller 419 by Will Ferguson, describing a simile he’d
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