“How to Write Long–But Not Long-winded–Sentences” at GrubStreet
“How to Write Long–But Not Long-winded–Sentences” at GrubStreet
In our attention-span-challenged times, it takes a certain nerve to write long sentences, yet recent Booker longlisted books include Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, and Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyport, all of which revel in them. How do we explain this? Sentence length can seem almost accidental, a byproduct of style or point […]