Sublime

cavils.

escarpment

One moral of this story is that you should always collect more material than you will use. Every article is strong in proportion to the surplus of details from which you can choose the few that will serve you best—if you don’t go on gathering facts forever. At some point you must stop researching and start writing.

“Funes the Memorious,”

of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,

It helps, I think, to keep hold of something of that older sense of the writer as a carver of sentences. Consider the sentence as a crafted object that will take up space in three dimensions.

Donald Antrim,

Simplify, simplify.