Review article: Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish's 'How to write a sentence'

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Review article: Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish's 'How to write a sentence'

Post by Erik_Kowal » Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:21 am

Adam Haslett surveys the received assumptions concerning 'good' writing style that are the focus of Stanley Fish's assessment of the prescriptions handed down to us by previous generations. The full title of Fish's new book is 'How to write a sentence and how to read one'.

http://www.slate.com/id/2282086/pagenum/all/
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