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    Postsurgical Reading, and Other Questions

    by Lorin Stein Sep 06, 2017 3 minutes

    Have a question for the editors of The Paris Review? Email us.

    Dear Paris Review,

    My writing mentor said that if I want to raise my writing to the next level, then I have to learn to write suggestively in addition to writing descriptively. Is this true and where can one learn to write suggestively?

    Yours,

    Stuck in the Basement

    Dear Stuck,

    Suggestive is good! Suggestive is a plus. Your mentor’s advice has the weight of the entire

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