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Snowden Wright

@SnowdenWright

Author of AMERICAN POP, PLAY PRETTY BLUES, and THE QUEEN CITY DETECTIVE AGENCY https://t.co/QWCPp0fAvU

เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2012
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
To summarize: Language got bad when people decided it needed to . . . convey information. Riiiggghhht. And hammers got bad when people decided they needed to hammer things
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"We've been homogenizing writing since long before AI." Ocean Vuong says: "It coincided with the rise of the newspaper. The newspaper needed to be standardized after the Civil War because it was completely reckless. Exclamation marks were everywhere. Sure it was beautiful but for information delivery, it was terrible. So the English started to become tamed. It became efficient. It went for clarity. It had to have enough brevity to keep room for advertising. And this comes from the newspaper model. There are plenty of works that are written beautifully from that but it's done incredible damage to young writers' imaginations because the sentence has now been so timid."

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Confused about the difference between autofiction and autobiographical fiction? Just remember the first part of "autofiction" is short for "autopilot," not "autobiographical"
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“Society is Lemann’s métier. She’s a belletrist of etiquette.” —Snowden Wright speaks to the reissues of Nancy Lemann’s “Lives of the Saints” and “The Ritz of the Bayou” alongside her latest work “The Oyster Diaries,” out April 7.   🔗: shorturl.at/1DkgB
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
Back in grad school, a fellow student, regarding a piece that eschewed quotation marks for dialogue, offered the writer two words of advice as brutal as they were correct: "Grow up."
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
I need to watch The Pitt. Can't believe they made an entire show about the rowdy frat from the movie PCU
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I recently witnessed a moderator for a panel at a literary conference read from his own book as though he were a panelist. First time I've ever seen that kind of breach in panel etiquette. "He's not about to--oh my god, he is . . ."
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
Inventor of Yoo-hoo: What if chocolate milk . . . but without the milk? Genius! The future is CHOCOLATE WATER
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The only plausible claim regarding the “MFAification” of contemporary fiction is that many novels today have chapters that feel like short stories: too contained, too stand-alone. The workshop model works best with short stories, so MFAers often write chapters that feel like them
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One side effect of AI-generated writing's proliferation, I think, will be lighter line edits from editors--a means to preserve the work's more human idiosyncrasies. For strong writers, that's great. But many writers could use a heavier line edit
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is incredibly well-done. It is to House of the Dragon what Andor is to [deep breath] The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, The Acolyte, and Skeleton Crew
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Snowden Wright@SnowdenWright·
I just saw the phrase "distantly rendered close-third," an unsubtle reminder that, however ingrained the basics of POV may feel to writing teachers, our students still need to learn them
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Oxford American@oxfordamerican·
The Oxford American is now accepting pitches for our special Summer/Fall 2026 double issue dedicated to Home! Full details: oxfordamerican.org/submissions
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Crazy, Stupid, Love may be a rewatchable, but that comma splice is an unforgivable
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Reviews of short-story collections are often a slog to read, I think, because reviewers feel obligated to compound the least interesting part of any review: plot summary. In X story, blah-blah-blah. In Y story, blah-blah-blah...
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Yeah, but Part Two is tighter, funnier, more self-aware though less glaringly so, and better shot. My hierarchy: Scream 2 Scream 1 Scream (5) Scream 4 Scream 6 Scream 3
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