definition of a boring book

Musing on his craft, Jules Feiffer note that Hemingway's spare language "made sense to a cartoonist's imagination," as "the air between words was like the silent panel in an adventure strip: it told the story by not telling, by giving over to the reader the job of filling in the writer's gaps."



Reminds me of something a favorite publisher taught me. I was reading to children in schools from an early draft of Handbag Friends and, at one particular point in the story (when the poor Handbag...