Tag Archives: Garrison Keillor

Sentencecraft

Posted on September 9, 2009 by fsdthreshold

Poe’s Law of the Short Story is this: “Every word in a piece of fiction pays its way.” Have you ever read Mark Twain’s enthusiastic description of the wonderful new invention called the “typewriter”? If you read it today, you’d swear … Continue reading →

Summer Nights and Reading Spaces

Posted on July 11, 2008 by fsdthreshold

I remember the first time I noticed that a bright moon can throw your shadow as sharply onto the ground as the sun can. I made that discovery because I was out in a summer night, reveling in the cool … Continue reading →

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