4. Good Writing Means Leaving Things Out

from Writing and Editing · host Wayne Jones

Send us Fan MailWayne discusses the importance of a type of spareness in writing fiction, and cites a short story by Raymond Carver, novels by Vladimir Nabokov, a song by Leonard Cohen, and two movies (Unforgiveable and Glengarry Glen Ross)—to illustrate his points.

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