MISHAN: I suppose the question is, Are there places where Nicholson Baker is purposefully writing amateurishly because he's writing in the voice of Paul Chowder, not Nicholson Baker?
Obviously, I take more of a chance than most parents for having things go viral, since I purposefully write about parenting on my blog.
That's not saying I'm desperately trying to write things that every age can relate to, but I just didn't purposefully write things that people couldn't relate to.
Every eTest question was written purposefully for the Unit.
This is because e-mails are also self-contained texts written purposefully to convey author's specific ideas or sentiments to the recipient(s).
Not only have other translators, such as Michael Hofmann, raved about this book: Bellos has the chops for this, as he has translated Georges Perec, whose Oulipian linguistic games are challenging enough to read as it is (not to mention purposefully challenging to write).
Fewer three-chord Everly Brothers-type covers (she recorded "Bowling Green" on "The Virginian") and fewer notional numbers, like Case's own "Honky-Tonk Hiccups," one of the few downright (and probably purposefully) silly songs she has written.
Written in a purposefully flat, Associated Press style, with no bylines, The Onion spoofs everything from consumer news to international crises, and often in a way that seems just a little too real.
