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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
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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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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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'I look forward to their lazy, ride-hitching arses returning to the pits of intellectual and linguistic mediocrity from whence they came'
Eimear McBride on prose style
May 16
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The best-written recent literary fiction; and Jonathan Meades on prose style: 'Writing which dares not appropriate is pathetic'
Read the opening pages from our picks
Apr 20
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The best-written recent literary fiction and nonfiction; and A.L. Kennedy's no-nonsense take on prose style
Read the opening pages from our picks
Apr 13
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‘It's headbutting time forever’: A.L. Kennedy holds nothing back on prose style
Part 1 of this post is here:
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