It's the kind of structure that, with a less exacting writer, could have gone very wrong.
She was an exacting writer when it came to prose, less exacting when it came to measuring ingredients.
"I feel like every late-night show has the exact same writers' room," Thede told the International Business Times.
Really, that's no surprise given that it's the brainchild of Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano – the exact same writers behind That's My Kind of Night.
In his Paris Review interview, he said: "The common conception of how novels get written seems to me to be an exact description of writer's block.
"Macallan own butts which are then loaned to sherry companies, and seasoned with wine to their exact specifications," whisky writer Ian Buxton explained to me.
But perhaps more damaging, if you quote without acknowledgment the exact passage another writer discussed, there's a very good chance that your argument will be subtly turned in an unintended direction.
A less exact and intelligent writer might have made a sermon out of these facts and traded on our smug assumption that somehow our racism is cleaner than that of our grandfathers.
Like Munro, Hadley is a writer both exact and lyrical, and there are many pleasures to be found along the way, particularly her sensual descriptions of nature, adolescence and maternity.
Again, there is no evidence that the painting actually depicts Shakespeare, although an inscription of the date, 1588, and the anonymous sitter's age, listed as 24, makes him an exact contemporary of the writer.
