December 2010
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Dec 27th
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Dec 13th
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Working on the ending
Wonderful essay by Gail Godwin in @NYTimes on how being a writer changes as you age. Here’s a quote from it: Inevitable for the old writer is the slowdown of word retrieval. You pause over the keyboard and summon in vain a word you need. This happens oftener and oftener, until you find your jotting pad crammed with thesaurus numbers (74.17, 658.11, 215.22, 236.2). All it once took was ...
Dec 11th
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The longest sentence of 2010
New York Magazine’s Dec. 5 article “The Year in Culture” shows an illustration of a long, corkscrewing series of words and tells us: “The longest sentence of 2010, at 305 words, is from Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, the big novel that made the world safe for big American novels again.” (Since there’s no link, I’m not going to retype the whole...
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“I think manic depression is more descriptive. Bipolar sounds like a gay bear.”
– Carrie Fisher, in NYTimes interview
Dec 7th
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