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Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Ed Simon Asks Us to Reconsider Our Definitions of Good Style

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2023

Revelations of Language: On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence

Revelations of Language: On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence

Nick Ripatrazone Looks at Journals Dedicated to the Prose Poem

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 2, 2023

These are the 5 (er, 10?) best parentheses in literature.

These are the 5 (er, 10?) best parentheses in literature.

By Emily Temple | April 22, 2021

The Magic Sentences of Lauren Groff, Action Without Verbs

The Magic Sentences of Lauren Groff, Action Without Verbs

Christian Kiefer on the Sleight-of-Hand of a Contemporary Master

By Christian Kiefer | March 2, 2020

How Does Garth Greenwell Make Such Wonderful Sentences?

How Does Garth Greenwell Make Such Wonderful Sentences?

Cleanness">Christian Kiefer on Grammar as Meaning-Maker in Cleanness

By Christian Kiefer | January 23, 2020

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Joe Moran (and Other Writers) on the Basic Building Blocks of Writing

By Joe Moran | August 30, 2019

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