Come September, Jhumpa Lahiri will be publishing a new novel entitled The Lowland.
Counting down the days until Year in Reading begins? If not, we’d like you to remind that our contributors once included George Saunders.
Constructing a sentence is the equivalent of taking a Polaroid snapshot: pressing the button, and watching something emerge. To write one is to document and to develop at the same time. Not all sentences end up in novels or stories. But novels and stories consist of nothing but. Sentences are the bricks as well as the mortar, the motor as well as the fuel. They are the cells, the individual stitches. Their nature is at once solitary and social. Sentences establish tone, and set the pace. One in front of the other marks the way.
Jhumpa Lahiri, “My Life’s Sentences”
Source: The New York Times
