One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.
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Fuse Book Review: “The Virtues of Poetry” — Fascinating But Frustrating
James 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.