A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives
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A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives
Look up “villain,” for instance, and you’ll be awash in such rascality as only a lexicographer could conjure back from centuries of iniquity, obliquity, depravity, knavery, profligacy, frailty, flagrancy, infamy, immorality, corruption, wickedness, wrongdoing, backsliding and sin. You’ll find ruffians and riffraff, miscreants and malefactors, repro
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
In some ways, book reviewers, critics, book club hosts, readers, and even the writers themselves, are engaged in a long war against the idea of fiction itself, involving the reverse-engineering and geolocation of various hurts and harms in the psychology of the writer. We are, at least in America, a nation trained in the arts of literary analysis, ... See more
Brandon • emotional support trauma plot
A bit of well-placed profanity never goes awry if you pick your spot with care. Stephen King novels taught me that.
Mike Bockoven • FantasticLand: A Novel
possibly the most extreme example in modern fiction of how beautifully and lovingly someone can write 70,000 words of vicious nonsense.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
I think about this often in class, when students sometimes shut down in response to offensiveness in a work of art I see as having this kind of value. I find myself using two metaphors that are a little contradictory—or maybe not contradictory; maybe they’re two steps in a process. One is a metaphor of suspension. I don’t want to shut down my stude... See more