Stan Carey

Helen DeWitt starts with Cormac McCarthy's approach to punctuation and ends up telling a deeply unhappy story about the editing on her extraordinary first book, The Last Samurai

https://paperpools.blogspot.com/2007/08/cormac-mccarthy-semi-colon.html

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Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon

Mithridates has sent me the link to Cormac McCarthy's interview with Oprah Winfrey, here -- you have to join Oprah's book club, but member...

Jul 21, 2023 at 1:56pmWeb
Show threadé.Jul 21, 2023
@stancarey one of my favorite books, rereading it right now! Looking forward to reading this, too
Show threadStan CareyJul 21, 2023
@ohbara It's such an amazing book, and her account of its editing is quite maddening
Show threadé.Jul 21, 2023
@stancarey yes to both
Show threadMichael ThériaultJul 21, 2023
@stancarey Thanks for the piece. On the matter of semicolons, I’m with Marcel and the elaborate sentence, as the spirit once in a while takes me, and not with Cormac. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Proust #CormacMcCarthy