"It's extremely difficult to make an even barely readable narrative out of a pile of documents," he said.
The story, hilariously titled "Iceberg Ahead!" is indicative of the magazine's wit and irreverence, as well as a case study of how to produce a lively, readable story out of a difficult interview.
Galvin quotes another Oulipian as saying "since Baudelaire, poetry has explicitly loved the big city", and Hitting the Streets is an extension of that project – especially as incarnated by the work of Apollinaire, who also made extremely witty and readable poetry out of avant-garde forms.
Comments on the book recently brought out by Russel Crouse called "Murder Won't Out," a readable collection of 12 good stories and true ones.
By Alexander Woollcott The New Yorker, May 21 , 1932P. 29 Comments on the book recently brought out by Russel Crouse called "Murder Won't Out," a readable collection of 12 good stories and true ones.
Its very satisfying to receive a batch of accepted manuscripts and see them transformed from a melting pot of computer files and idiosyncratic grammar into clearly laid out, accurate, readable articles of which the authors can hopefully be proud.
THE first volume of John Richardson's magisterial and wonderfully readable life of Pablo Picasso came out over 15 years ago, and more than ten have elapsed since the publication of the second.
And, pointed out Tim Hayward, it's "an immensely readable history of the cookery book which puts our obsession with the outpourings of Jamie, Gordo and Nigella firmly into perspective".
The essays in which James sets out his radical empiricism are among the most influential and most readable documents of the neutral monistic literature.
Two highly readable books stand out from the inevitable instant accounts of Egypt's revolution.
