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A fun contrast to this would be kottke.org's "Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace" from a while back: http://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-dav

by rnprdk 13y ago

A fun contrast to this would be kottke.org's "Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace" from a while back: http://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-wallace http://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-... Also: I haven't read a whole lot of Hemingway, but when I did read him, I always thought he was much more versatile a writer than made out to be.

lutusp 13y ago
> I haven't read a whole lot of Hemingway, but when I did read him, I always thought he was much more versatile a writer than made out to be. Remember that Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and many other writers began as newspaper reporters, where over time they learned to express complex stories with the fewest words.