Making Sentences
Michael PreedyMaking sense of the written world
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By heart #13: I want a girl who reads • Mark Grist
Learn a poem by heart and it stays with you forever. This month, I recite Mark Grist’s I want a girl who reads, which asks us to think twice about what makes someone attractive.
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Essay #18: Tremain virgin
Rose Tremain, who's 83 today, stands as the greatest English writer of her time. Sadler's Birthday, her first novel published 50 years ago, shows how names turn time from an enemy to a friend.
In 2013, when I was nineteen, I lost my virgin...
Monthly letter #4: America's greatest ever export
Reflections on reading, writing, and ideas from Making Sentences in July.
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Frinkiac
This past month, all (some) of Substack was arguing over the question of who is America’s Home...
Public gratitude #12: Wind/Pinball • Haruki Murakami
A world of exits needs more entrances
Whenever I finish a book (by a writer living or dead), I write a thank you note to its author. This month, I’m grateful to Haruki Murakami for his kitchen-table fiction, and his reminder that good writ...
By heart #12: 1260 • Emily Dickinson
Learn a poem by heart and it stays with you forever. This month, I recite Emily Dickinson’s 1260: a poem about life, death, and the love in between.
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The Simpsons was my introducti...
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