Sunday, November 14, 2004
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BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | November 14, 2004
And the Winner Is . . .
By LAURA MILLER (NYT)
A quote:
"Readers, as a rule, care more about what an author writes; other writers are often more impressed with how. Beautiful sentences, formal experiments and infinitely delicate evocations of emotional states abound in these five books, but those woebegone souls in search of a good story will have to keep looking, elsewhere."
A comment:
To paraphrase a recent political rule: "It's the story, stupid!"
And the Winner Is . . .
By LAURA MILLER (NYT)
A quote:
"Readers, as a rule, care more about what an author writes; other writers are often more impressed with how. Beautiful sentences, formal experiments and infinitely delicate evocations of emotional states abound in these five books, but those woebegone souls in search of a good story will have to keep looking, elsewhere."
A comment:
To paraphrase a recent political rule: "It's the story, stupid!"
