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Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity
September 14, 2015
One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.
Read More about Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into EternityJames Longenbach’s ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays so often tie themselves into semantic and logical knots.
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