Tag: Zan McQuade

• Awe-Inspired Paralysis

  From Maud Newton: Joan Didion suffered from an extreme case of awe-inspired paralysis. She told The Paris Review that, while Henry James was as formative as influence on her writing as Hemingway, she could no longer read him at all. He wrote perfect sentences, too, but very indirect, very complicated. Sentences with sinkholes. You could…

  Bill Ectric

  February 9, 2010

  Henry James, Joan Didion, Maud Newton, Proust, Rupert Thomson, Virginia Woolf, writing, Writing Secrets, Zan McQuade