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How to Write a New Sentence
“If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.” —Adam Haslett, reviewing How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, by Stanley Fish Haslett clearly hasn’t encountered Ron Silliman and so hasn’t factored the New Sentence into his wonderful analogy.Read More