Draft no 4 – 3/5 Stars I don’t know much about John McPhee. I didn’t grow up reading the New Yorker or being around or knowledgeable about public intellectuals and they’re not much discussed in academic classes. What I was hoping this was is a book cataloging good writing and revision rules and advice the way books by like William Zinsser are. Instead it’s more like a writing memoir from a widely known and documented public career. There’s some advice here and there, but it’s […]
Ann Patchett by way of Jennifer Egan
I got this one off the library shelf (Audiobook) mostly because of the title and cover. I think I wanted to also know something about Francine Prose as an author because she’s part of the literary aether right now and was just curious in general. And because her name is Prose. The structure of this novel is sort of like a tag-team of literary connection points circulating around a specific play off-Broadway and stemming from a specific performance of that play. Mr. Monkey is the name […]