Suppose a Sentence
Written by Brian Dillon
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
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In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence-from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion-this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism , The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays , I Am Sitting in a Room , Sanctuary , Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room , which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian , New York Times , London Review of Books , Times Literary Supplement , Bookforum , frieze and Artforum . He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London.
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