January 2010
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j d salinger burnt your fan mail.
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how to use a semicolon.
the most feared punctuation on earth.
vonnegut:
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college
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martin amis on "the spooky art" of novel writing.
“Why did you decide to write a novel about the Holocaust?” This challenge, which I still sometimes hear, can only be answered as follows: “But I never did.” Similarly, I never decided to write a novel about teenage sexuality, or Thatcher’s England, or millennial London, or, indeed, about the Gulag (which I nonetheless completed in 2006). With its hopelessly inapposite...
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