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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Daily Dose

From Pitch Dark, by Renata Adler

AND THEN

"And then this matter of the commas.  And this matter of the paragraphs.  The true comma.  The pause comma.  The afterthought comma.  The hesitation comma.  The rhythm comma. The blues."

From page 78, this edition

Friday, May 22, 2015

Daily Dose


From After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction, by Renata Adler

AN EARLY SURPRISE

"An early surprise was the number of utterly deadly films that came out, tolerable to sit through, nearly impossible to discuss."

From A Year in the Dark, Introduction