Quotation Mark Agita

(link via Simon Strantzas)

Laura Miller at Salon.com writes about authors of literary fiction abandoning quotation marks, for as intimated, no other reason than affectation.  Read here.

I agree that eschewing the quotation marks for no reason is a useless affectation, and I'm disappointed by the lack of defense of the practice attributed to E L Doctorow and Cormac McCarthy (his, If you write properly, you shouldn't have to punctuate is kind of weak, to be honest.  But he wrote Blood Meridian...