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...hours’ sleep and three square meals a week), big business (a field in which I quickly earned the title of “Corporate Pariah”), self-searching travels (during which I tried to write the Great American Novel and finished not even the Great American Paragraph) and completion of an advanced degree...
...been a fan of boxer Muhammad Ali's ever since I watched him defeat Sonny Liston on closed-circuit TV in 1964. Still, the compliments by essayist Stanley Crouch in your coverage of the new film Ali [CINEMA, Dec. 24] were, to put it gently, excessive. The closing paragraph is but one example: "Everything he did was big, when he was right, when he was wrong, when he embarrassed us, when he inspired us. That finally is why he remains a king of the world." Gracious! My guess is that Ali would get a chuckle when reading such nonsense. RICHARD...
...responded to her e-mail apologetically, urging her to peruse the column closely, to read the actual lines and not between them, not to be led astray by the sarcasm in the second paragraph. “Dude,” came back the reply, “I would hope that you could recognize the sarcasm in my own response.” So that’s how my own medicine tastes...
...point about Lane’s roommates “enjoying more space,” we can only say that as an Expos preceptor, we’d expect something more germane to his argument. However Weinberger makes one last argument in this closing paragraph that contains the least logic of all: he charges that the travesty in Lane’s leaving is that he denies a student who “belonged here” a spot. Exactly who does Weinberger think he is to make such a presumptuous comment? Is Weinberger just the pen name...
...When I have a deadline, it forces me to write something. I had a really hard time trying to write over the summer when there were no concrete due dates—I would write a paragraph, obsess over revising it and making it perfect, then I would go watch TV or something. When I know I need a story done in a couple days, I’ll crank it out in a few sittings and not worry so much about perfecting every sentence. If I’m feeling uninspired, reading some published stories (by other authors) usually...