Sometimes bad writing is good writing... - by Henry Oliver
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Who is no great gift to English prose?
This week, Wired writer Jason Kehe wrote a profile of fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson that Sanderson’s fans really didn’t like. Kehe was criticised for making cruel jokes. Ben Sixsmith wrote a partial defence of Kehe that “you can’t have an essay without a perspective.” Ben makes a good argument that Kehe was in fact fairly balanced. I think Kehe’s perspective is seen as meretricious because it’s so shallowly high-brow. At the risk of writing about Ben writing about Kehe writing about Sanderson, let me explain. Kehe contends Sanderson isn’t a good writer. “At the sentence level, he is no…
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