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The First Two Pages
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Each week I contrast a work of commercial fiction with a work of classic literature -- but just the first two pages mind you.
- Added on: Sep 15th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tom Heehler
- Listed in: How-To Writing
- Tags: literature writing publishing writers commercial fiction writing how to
Recent Posts
James Baldwin vs Charlaine Harris (Part 2 of 5)
Baldwin His earliest memories -- which were in a way, his only memories -- were of the hurry and brightness of Sunday mornings. They all rose together on that day; his father, who did not have to go to work, and led them in prayer before breakfast; h...
James Baldwin vs Charlaine Harris (Part 3 of 5)
Baldwin Sarah, who wore a ribbon in her hair that day, and was fondled by her father. And the baby, Ruth, who was dressed in pink and white, and rode in her mother's arms to church. The church was not very far away, four blocks up...
James Baldwin\'s "Go Tell it on the Mountain" vs. Charlaine Harris and "Shakespeare\'s Christmas" (Part 1 of 5)
Baldwin Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself. Not until the morning of his fourteenth bi...
Kurt Vonnegut vs. Dan Brown (Part 5 of 5)
Final Score Vonnegut +5 Brown -2 Vonnegut But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this d...
Kurt Vonnegut vs. Dan Brown (Part 4 of 5)
Vonnegut If they studied their paper money for clues as to what their country was all about, among a lot of other baroque trash, a picture of a truncated pyramid with a radiant eye on top of it, like this: A lot of the nonsense was the innocent resu...
Truman Capote vs. Jacqueline Susann (Part 5 of 5)
Final Score Capote +8 Susann +1 Capote After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco...
