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\"\"<\/a>I recently got out of serious relationship. Since then I have not been able to read, though I usually love sad, sappy love stories. Can you recommend some books that have zero romance or love in them? Some good post-breakup fiction?<\/em><\/p>\n

Readers of this column know my high opinion of the Jeeves books and Life on the Mississippi<\/a><\/em>. They cheer me up, and are rigorously free of mushy scenes. Sam Lipsyte\u2019s Home Land<\/em><\/a> is a post-breakup book, I mean the hero has been dumped by his wife, but really that’s the least of his problems\u2014and the one time they get back together (for about two and a half minutes) it\u2019s enough to cure you of the whole idea of coupledom for at least the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

Also: How do you feel about dogs? It\u2019s not fiction, and it is full of love, but something tells me J. R. Ackerley\u2019s 1965 memoir, My Dog Tulip<\/a><\/em>\u2014about the unlikely romance between a crusty, middle-aged English bachelor and his German shepherd\u2014might make a welcome distraction.<\/p>\n

Dear Lorin,<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

I was talking to another writer-friend recently about the use of commas. I tend to err on the safe side, slipping too many of them, perhaps, around phrases I think are supposed to be identified. But is this precious or old-fashioned or out of style?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

In this<\/a> <\/em>Paris Review interview with Mary Karr, she claims to have had a comma stutter in <\/em>The Liars\u2019 Club<\/a>. Do you think there\u2019s such a thing as a comma stutter, or is it more like a sentence stutter, reflecting hesitation, or something, from the writer? I\u2019d like to smooth out, and I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours,
Comma Stutterer in Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n

A good comma stutter never goes out of style. Where would Henry James be without his commas\u2014or that real-life stutterer Charles Lamb? Here is Lamb on his gruff but cowardly friend John Tipp: \u201cWith all this there was about him a sort of timidity\u2014(his few enemies used to give it a worse name)\u2014something which, in reverence to the dead, we will place, if you please, a little on this side of the heroic.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can, of course, write in comma stutters then simply take out the punctuation. That is what Henry Green liked to do, for example when he describes what it was like to be unpopular at Eton:<\/p>\n

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These were the days when to be alone was to feel one had escaped for the moment not from any overt bullying but from what appeared to be the threat. There was a strain in trying to keep up with new friendships which probably did not exist. There was the dread of going into a friend’s room to find one was not wanted, to be abandoned by the two leaders now that they were too busy to bother and worst of all the self questioning as to why this should be, the fear it might be a peer or one of the school\u2019s racquet players and of what this meant if true. The best was to get away in those few hours we had on our own, to chance being seen lonely in the effort to forget.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Green teaches the reader to hear his pauses, to anticipate his hesitations, and, thus, to think like a man of his class and sensibility. Such is the magic. When women say of a good dancer that he knows how to lead, this must be what they mean.<\/p>\n

Then of course there is Gertrude Stein, who so loved the comma stutter that she would abolish the punctuation altogether. This is the typographical equivalent of burning the village to save it:<\/p>\n

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A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath. It is not like stopping altogether has something to do with going on, but taking a breath well you are always taking a breath and why emphasize one breath rather than another breath. Anyway that is the way I felt about it and I felt that about it very very strongly. And so I almost never used a comma. The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The point is, if your sentences are guided by your feelings, you can race or hesitate as the spirit moves you. Your reader will understand. <\/p>\n

What should I read if I want to learn more about how cities grow?<\/em><\/p>\n

If you have a whole weekend to yourself and a really comfortable chair, I recommend Gotham: A History of New York<\/a><\/em>, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. You may not get through all 1,424 pages in one sitting, but however much you read you will enjoy, and you will feel yourself getting the gist. If you are interested in smaller cities\u2014specifically, in the growth of a company town\u2014try Richard Powers\u2019s novel Gain<\/a><\/em>. You can skip the parts about individual people (Powers is never especially good at human beings). The company is the hero of the book. If you want to know what happened to the cities of the Eastern seaboard, start with Jane Jacobs\u2019s classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/a><\/em>. And if you want a quick introduction to the rest of the landscape, check out Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have a question for the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review? E-mail<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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