How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews How to Be Both by Ali Smith today in Rumpus Books.
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A Symposium on Dialogue
For The Millions, Jonathan Russell Clark draws quotes from a number of writing books—among them, Stephen King’s On Writing and Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel—and creates…
The Art of The Novel
The approach coupled with the scope (covering, as it does, a huge swath of time) results in maybe the most complete history of the novel in English ever produced. Over…
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.
The Art of Homage
But what if your entire book is based on another one? What if a certain piece of information (in the cases of these books, a writer or a specific novel)…
Word of the Day: Logodaedaly
(n.); cunning in words; skill in adorning speech; the arbitrary or capricious coinage of words; from late Latin and Greek, log (“speech, word”) and daidalos (“skillful, ingeniously formed) Every society…
Starting Points
Following his essay, “The Art of Epigraph,” Jonathan Russell Clark turns to analyzing opening sentences at The Millions. He explores what makes contemporary and canonical first lines effective, and he…
In Search of Lost Epigraphs
At The Millions, Jonathan Russell Clark ruminates on the idea of the epigraph. Over the past decade, Clark has kept a Word document filled with quotes from literature, and the…