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Good sentences: At lunch the other day I sat next to a poet who was working on the release of her first novel. “I tend to like prose by poets,” I said. “They usually write good sentences.” I’ve just started reading Brian Dillon’s Suppose a Sentence, a book of essays inspired by sentences from his commonplace book, but I got distracted by the list of books he mentioned in the introduction about how to write good sentences: Virginia Tufte’s Artful Sentences, Stanley Fish’s How To Write a Sentence, and Joe Moran’s First You Write A Sentence.
The best thing I heard this week: What kind of album would you get if you gave an 11-year-old Logic Pro and played him a steady diet of Kraftwerk and Daft Punk? The answer is TECH, the latest album from my son Owen Kleon. (For fun, I interviewed Owen about the making of the album.)
RIP guitarist Duane Eddy. When Conan O’Brien asked him what was his greatest contribution to music, he answered, “Not singing.”
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