“Baumgartner”

It strikes me that, were a creative writing tutor to use Paul Auster’s Baumgartner as a sample text, they might tell you that it was a good example of how not to write a novel. The reasons? Firstly, masses of ‘telling’ rather than ‘showing’; and secondly, enormously long sentences – sometimes half a page – … Continue reading “Baumgartner” →