http://www.aetataureate.com/2009/12/cannoball-6-flowers-in-the-attic-by-v-c-andrews/ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aetataureate.com/2009/12/cannoball-6-flowers-in-the-attic-by-v-c-andrews/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Cannonball #13: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck « OF A GOLDEN AGE Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:02:37 +0000 http://www.aetataureate.com/?p=2235#comment-1351 [...] Nearly two years ago I devoured John Steinbeck’s late-in-career travel memoir Travels with Charley and, later that year, took a road trip across America’s northeastern quadrant. Steinbeck’s prose walks a line between the all-out terseness of Hemingway and the more ornamental nature of other writers, and because of that he embodies my favorite writing rule: Don’t let your writing distract from your point. (Maybe you remember this from when I read Flowers in the Attic?) [...] [...] Nearly two years ago I devoured John Steinbeck’s late-in-career travel memoir Travels with Charley and, later that year, took a road trip across America’s northeastern quadrant. Steinbeck’s prose walks a line between the all-out terseness of Hemingway and the more ornamental nature of other writers, and because of that he embodies my favorite writing rule: Don’t let your writing distract from your point. (Maybe you remember this from when I read Flowers in the Attic?) [...]

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