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...holiday newsletter is printed on the family’s DeskJet and usually has a festive border around it. But don’t be fooled by this ornament, the letter’s content is a veritable popcorn chain of falsehoods, all strung together with conventional and informal prose...
...book is a surprisingly easy read—Bunuel’s writing style is very different from his far murkier cinematic directing. He still finds clever ways to incorporate into his prose dream images, symbols, and allegorical elements that are meant to shock, with surrealist intention. However, Bunuel the writer cannot as easily confuse the audience by abruptly cutting scenes...
Spitz’s prose occasionally drifts into the realm of chuckle-inducing clichés, as when he writes that the Beatles “were actually going on the road—a road from which they would never look back...
...that he sees the end of GYWO on the horizon, Rees has as much of a plan for the future as he did in mid-2001, which is to say he doesn’t have one.“I think I would like to do more prose writing,” he says. “I’ve been writing sort of these short, sketch-comedy screenplays.”“I’ve also been doing more stand-up comedy,” he says, tossing off another possibility...
This vexation is equally felt by the reader. With Langguth detailing each exhaustive event concerning the War of 1812, one almost feels like this is a history crash course. However, the fluidity of Langguth’s prose keeps the book from devolving into a boring, lecture-like encyclopedia...