No-style & Good Style
Plotting Along
washingtonpost.com
Via metafilter, in the it’s-about-time department, an article from Linton Weeks about the banal no-styles of most best-selling authors.
If you were asked to satirize a No-Style writer’s style, the way people used to satirize Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, you couldn’t do it. It would be like satirizing the phone book.
I’ve been staying awake until 2 or 3am, curled up in the futon reading The Corrections and it’s really got me in. The long section about Denise in the third quarter of the book is just magnificent, and the whole thing is funny as hell. Deceptively simple style, but Franzen knows some sly tricks.
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Posted to Books • 2001.12.02 (Sun) • 22:41
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