Category: writing
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Beautiful Sentences: Tom McAllister
Shell-shocked acquaintances will say without irony that he had so much to live for, ignorant of the fact that the prospect of having to live like this for another fifty years was not the solution to but rather the cause of his hopelessness. Tom McAllister, How to Be Safe.
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Beautiful Sentences: Bennet Sims
What if he is her paramour from the past tense, cuckolding me from her unconscious, such that her body will break up with me in undeath, leaving our apartment for him? Bennett Sims, A Questionable Shape.
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Beautiful Sentences: Genevieve Valentine
Of course, like most unkind advice, it was correct, eventually, somehow. Genevieve Valentine, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti.
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Beautiful Sentences: Sigrid Nunez
In the news: Thirty-two million adult Americans can’t read. The potential audience for poetry has shrunk by two-thirds since 1992. A “rent-burdened” woman worrying how she’s going to survive in New York City decides to try writing a novel (“and that’s going well”). Sigrid Nunez, The Friend.
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Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange
She presses the Home button and for a second, just for a small moment, thinks she should open her other Facebook feed. On that other Facebook, she’d find the information and media she’d always been looking for. On that other Facebook feed, she’d find true connection. That is where she’d always wanted to be. Is…
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Writerly resolutions, May status
I made significant progress on the novel (the graph at the right shows the progression of my word count over the month). A first draft of chapter 11 is done and I’m nearly finished with the rewrite of the chapter. I think that this might be a chapter that can stand on its own as a…
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Beautiful Sentences: Sigrid Nunez
If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away. Sigrid Nunez, The Friend.
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Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange
Those hills bend time. Tommy Orange, There There.