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what does "good" prose look like?

a follow-up

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Lyta Gold
Aug 28, 2024
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A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I thought Neil Gaiman wasn’t very good at descriptive prose (a fact which is unrelated to his disqualifying ethical failings.) I want to follow up on this, not to discuss Neil Gaiman any further—who I think is done and dusted as a literary subject—but because I think it’s important to be clear about what we mean when we…

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