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'Once you’re writing to convey information, the prose is dead.'
The best-written recent literary fiction
Nov 7
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A new pick from our subscribers' submissions
Plus the best-written recent nonfiction
Oct 24
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Stephen Marche: 'It is worth spending a year on a book to make it one percent better.'
Read Marche's answers to our questions on prose style and AI writing
Oct 10
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The best-written recent literary fiction
And Michael Clune answers our questions on prose style and AI writing
Oct 3
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The best-written recent nonfiction: THE THRESHOLD AND THE LEDGER by Tom McCarthy
And McCarthy answers our questions on prose style and the reality or otherwise of the self.
Sep 19
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The best-written recent nonfiction: Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
Read the opening pages below. Plus the book's authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty discuss prose technique
Aug 8
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From our subscribers' submissions: Woman of the Hour by Claire Polders
And Polders answers our questions on prose technique.
Aug 1
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Claire Polders
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The best-written recent fiction
And Beth Kephart answers our questions on prose technique.
Jul 18
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The best-written recent nonfiction
And Donal Ryan answers our questions on prose technique
Jul 11
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'Look after your sentences and f**k the begrudgers.'
Donal Ryan on prose technique.
Jul 11
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The best-written recent literary fiction
Two new picks. Plus authors' stylistic pet peeves.
Jun 1
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'Some people may be too sane to be good writers.'
Erika Krouse's superbly detailed discussion of prose technique
May 23
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