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LitStack Recs: How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One & American Elsewhere

How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish For writers, the sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that holds a reader fast to a story. And I love that Stanley Fish wrote a book just about sentences. A professor of law and dean emeritus at [….]

LitStack Rec: How to Read a Sentence… & The Butcher of Anderson Station

How to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish The sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that keeps a reader securely in a story, and Stanley Fish wrote a book just about sentences. A professor of law and dean emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences [….]

LitStack Recs: How to Write a Sentence: And How To Read One & My Father’s Arms Are a Boat

How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish The sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that holds a reader fast to a story. And I love that Stanley Fish wrote a book just about sentences. A professor of law and dean emeritus at the College [….]

Birthdays

On this day, December 12, in 1821, Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France. Never married, he was an unapologetic sensualist with both men and women and suffered from STDs most of his life. Although he wrote numerous works and was a prolific letter writer, he is mainly remembered for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. Published in 1856, it created a scandal in its “scrupulously truthful portraiture of life.” Flaubert was charged with immorality by the government upon its publication (his heroine has numerous affairs in an attempt to escape her empty life), but was acquitted. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1880 at age 56.