The Second Pass shares a favorite long sentence (from Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff), and a commenter mentions a fun-sounding game:
Many years ago, I bought a deck of large cards, called Shuffle Cards, at the MOMA in New York City. The cards were illustrated with drawings on each side. On one side of each card were the words, “and the” followed by a noun; on the other side was a verb. You would shuffle the cards, lay them out, and have a wonderful, nonsensical story to enjoy with children.
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Have you listened to any Aimee Mann lately? I was going to delete a bunch of songs off my iTunes, then started listening. She's so good! (This part of the post sounds like an e-mail to my sister.)
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Dwight Garner's NYT
review of Timothy Ferriss was like a gift that kept on giving:
"He is said to be very good at Chinese kickboxing."
"If a movie were to be made of Mr. Ferriss’s life, it would star Matthew McConaughey in little rectangular eyeglasses."
"Mr. Ferriss likes to pose without a shirt — in some photographs he sprouts chest hair; in others, it’s been waxed away — and to describe the veins that run across his abdomen. He tosses around words like 'thrashing' and, to refer to inanimate things, 'bad boys.' "
" 'The 4-Hour Body' reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog."
[Now
that's the way to do an x-meets-y line in a review.]
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You know who's on a roll? Paul Collins is on a roll. First his
Lapham's Quarterly piece, now this NYTBR essay on the
first detective novel!
Labels: Aimee Mann, Dwight Garner, Ed reads the NYT website, Ed reads the paper, long sentences, Paul Collins, The Second Pass
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