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Who’s a writer that utterly blows you away on a craftsmanship level?
Amazing sentences or word choice, impressive story structure, deft characterization—whatever the specifics, love em or hate em, who’s a writer that you see as accomplished in the craft?
Amazing sentences or word choice, impressive story structure, deft characterization—whatever the specifics, love em or hate em, who’s a writer that you see as accomplished in the craft?
I’ve got:
Adam Novy, for sentences that can dive from magisterial to catty to confused in a blink, and characters whose metamorphoses are somehow both constantly surprising, and entirely natural
Borges, for evoking entire novels and histories with the lightest touch,
Adam Novy, for sentences that can dive from magisterial to catty to confused in a blink, and characters whose metamorphoses are somehow both constantly surprising, and entirely natural
Borges, for evoking entire novels and histories with the lightest touch,
Eliot Weinberger, for finding such a wide range of information, and somehow drawing out the exact disparate details that form exactly the right suggestive vortex of meaning
And Tom Sweterlitsch for effortlessly dissolving genres into one another
And Tom Sweterlitsch for effortlessly dissolving genres into one another
I don’t just mean “writers you like” btw,
For example, Dostoevsky is one of my faves, but I have a hard time seeing him as a craftsman.
For example, Dostoevsky is one of my faves, but I have a hard time seeing him as a craftsman.
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