Three books offering “strangulated rapture” and “hallucinatory poetry” to the author of Visitation Street.
English is a mess—just ask any non-native speaker who has tried to learn it. That messiness is part of what makes it such a thrilling language for writers, as it seems to invite the coining of new words and phrases. The heavyweight champion of neologisms is, of course, Bill Shakespeare—it’s estimated the Bard invented around 1,700 words, plus […]