Part 2 of Eskor David Johnson's masterclass on prose style
Including: the best modern stylists; Echelon writing; stylistic pet peeves.
Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the Maytag Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he currently lives in New York City.
We chose his debut Pay As You Go as the best-written book on the shortlist for the Centre for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the winner of which will be announced on 5th December. Read an extended extract here.
Below we present Part 2 of Johnson’s unique in-depth discussion of various aspects of prose style (we have similar interviews on style coming up from the world-class writers listed here).
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