Comments on: Watch out for writing called Muscular, Sparse, or Lyrical http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/09/watch-out-for-writing-called-muscular-sparse-or-lyrical/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 15 May 2013 17:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lisa http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/09/watch-out-for-writing-called-muscular-sparse-or-lyrical/#comment-2104 Lisa Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:39:33 +0000 http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/?p=11306#comment-2104 I really like Cormac McCarthy’s work and the fact that it doesn’t lend itself well to public reading. I think “pretentious” is subjective. To me, the literature that is often read at public readings is pretentious because the emphasis is on how the words sound rather than the action and images conveyed. It’s not more natural. It’s just less visual.

]]> By: Cate Murphy http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/09/watch-out-for-writing-called-muscular-sparse-or-lyrical/#comment-2088 Cate Murphy Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:48:21 +0000 http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/?p=11306#comment-2088 Mine is a positive example: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is meaty, though-provoking, sad, funny and altogether a terrific piece of “literary” fiction. I don’t know quite how to describe the style. Maybe 21st century stream-of-consciousness? It’s natural. It’s the way we really do talk to ourselves: not in pages-long Faulknerian or Joycian long rambling sentences, but in short, often interrupted phrases.

I found this book so powerful that, after having read LPL’s copy, I bought my own copy. Definitely a book I want in my collection.

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