Archive - Stunning Sentences

Mingling Setting and Tone

"Right You Are, Lola Brommelsick, Right You Are," by John Dalton

Apr 20 •

Pulsing with Delight

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Apr 13 •

The Sentence of Shock

Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson

Apr 6 •

March 2024

The News of the Sentence

“Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car,” by John Updike

Mar 30 •

Woolf's Rhythm and Sound

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Mar 23 •

Contrasting Images, Contrasting Tones

Evil Flowers: Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson

Mar 16 •

Little Spots of Silence

The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner

Mar 9 •

Creating Cyclical Time

Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson

Mar 2 •

February 2024

Writing a Rupture

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Feb 24 •

And the world was shot in black and white

"Knife Party" by Mark Anthony Jarmon

Feb 17 •

Outside the Frame

The Idiot: A Novel by Elif Batuman

Feb 10 •

A Build Within a Build

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Feb 3 •

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