‘The Loneliest Place for a Writer’: Gary Lutz on Writing (and Rewriting) Great Sentences

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For anyone—is what follows interesting?

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Early this summer I attended a disappointingwriting workshop where a clearly unprepared instructor stressed the importance of creating air-tight sentences without bothering to suggest how. “Interrogate each one of your sentences,” she kept saying, then referring, over and over, to the first five lines of Lolita.

While...