ease up on academic pleonasms, e.g., "employ" vs. "use", "explicate" vs. "explain",
this just felt like the author jerking off about feedback he had gotten
[...] For her first grad seminar in American modernism [...] building a thesis from her marginalia in As I Lay Dying ("SUFFOCATING IN PERSPECTIVE"). Contemporary writers were so shit-scared of moralizing that they delegated to their poor characters the responsibility for conveying their philosoph…
Abjuring friendship, Linda had plowed through the English major requirements in two years.
Like every day before, the weather was keen blue, dusty sunlight throwing a sfumato over everything.
if only the rest of the book had been written like this
Without explicitly telling him, she moved in the next day, and found that he was a born lavisher: of back rubs and pharmaceuticals and his freezerful of weed. By day he was some Silicon Valley wanker, clearly grasping for purchased cool. It was embarrassing to date a boy who bought clothes at the s…
