The following paragraph is written by us but is representative of what we are getting from clients: The last week in January, he would walk the snow-covered streets, thinking of his wife who was ill at home. Her cough told him that these would be her last days. During his solitary walk, he would feel […]

“I came for this reason: I want to know what happened between A and B.” Bennie seemed to be waiting for more. “A is when we were both in the band, chasing the same girl. B is now.” The washed up guitar player, cum janitor, who makes these statements is a character in Jennifer Egan’s […]

One of our blog readers noted the length of the sentences in WHEN THE KILLING’S DONE, the TC Boyle book that was the subject of our last blog. She, helpfully, sent along some examples like this one: It was May of 1979 and all the good feelings — the vibrations, the groove — of the […]