Tuesday, March 29, 2011

writing and reading good writing

New Yorker, Talk of the Town
When Gary Gisselman was my teaching partner for AmCon 202 he told the students about advise about learning to write that he had received as a younger person than we are now.  Someone, I don't recall who, told him:"Read 'The Talk of the Town' in the New Yorker every week."  I don't know if every week is necessary, but it is true that the prose is crisp and worth imitating for the craft.  Having remembered this suggestion, I now offer the link to make the pleasant discipline easy.

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