Monday, January 30, 2006

Beginning Well Matters in Fiction, Too

Last week, we brought you the inaugural installment of our new monthly "best lead" (paragraph). In so doing, by the way, we decided to drop the journalese spelling of the term, which is "lede," which has a leaden sound to our ears. We're not big fans of jargon here, and that includes old-time journo jargon. And while, as we've mentioned before, our reading interests leave us far more interested in nonfiction than fiction, we did find this little tidbit fascinating: American Book Review recently tapped its 100 best first lines from novels. Just for the heck of it, read over it and see how many of those are familiar to you.

3 Comments:

At 2:46 PM, Blogger Darby M. Dixon III said...

There's a fun list being, uh, listed up now, over this way:

http://www.edrants.com/?p=2681

 
At 2:47 PM, Blogger Darby M. Dixon III said...

And with hyperlinked goodness:

Ta-da!

 
At 2:56 PM, Blogger John Ettorre said...

Thanks, Darby. I enjoy your blog, by the way. Cleveland's only true litblog, at least to my knowledge. Do please fill me in on any others I may be missing, y'all...

 

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