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Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Importance of Grammar

The writer says grammar is passe and writers are treating its rule as ballpark suggestions. Addie tried to make fun of what she kept calling lazy writing by offering a silly defense of it. She was laughing, but I wondered whether she had a point. Who wants form over content? Don't we all want freedom?

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