Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
My father closes out every phone call with an extended sputter of “bye-byes”, as if there is a magic number that will allow him to let go without finality, without ever letting go.
Source: Sara Lippmann, from Along Surf Avenue
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“No, I don’t,” I admitted, recalling that Charles Bovary had said something similar before horribly botching an operation on Hippolyte Tautain in Madame Bovary.
Source: Howard Jacobson, “The Jew, the Pelican, and the Nazi” (Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson)
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Maybe the most revealing aspect of this eruption, though, is just how little it took to set it off.
Source: Gal Beckerman, “A Free-Speech Meltdown” (The Atlantic)
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
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Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Julia Ward Howe, the author of the “Battle Hymn”—she wrote it in one fevered night at the Willard Hotel, in Washington, D.C.—received either $4 or $5 for her submission.
Source: Jeffrey Goldberg, “America’s Promise” (The Atlantic)