“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.” IfsReasonWhiteCenturyArmyAssumingMalesReason WhyExplanationConspiracySurvivedZombie Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.” WarNightMiddlePossibilityParticularColdShotsArmyHotSentencesManageLandscapeMidstTrappedRiceSubordinatesClausesSoakingLavenderHot DaysCold NightMonsoonsRecitationPaddy Author:Francine Prose
