The Many Faces of Style

In episode 3, season 2 of The Write Attention podcast Brittany and Jeannetta discuss style in light of Miciah Bay Gault’s craft essay on style (link below) and the influence our real and adopted selves have on the form and content of the work we create. They jointly work on the exercise offered in Gault’s essay to write on loss in the style of another writer.

 

• Craft essay referenced in this episode is “I Craft Therefore I am Creating Persona Through Syntax and Style” by Miciah Bay Gault, accessible here: https://hungermtn.org/i-craft-therefore-i-am-creating-persona-through-syntax-and-style/
• Kurt Vonnegut essay on style, https://kmh-lanl.hansonhub.com/pc-24-66-vonnegut.pdf 
• John Keene, https://lithub.com/john-keene-elements-of-literary-style/ 
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
• James Baldwin,  Giovanni’s Room, Another Country
• George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
• Poor Things, https://www.searchlightpictures.com/poor-things/ 
• The Lobster, https://a24films.com/films/the-lobster 
• Lighthouse classes can be found here:
• The Earley Scale, check out more about it here: https://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/going-cold/
• Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word
• Donna Tartt
•  The Write Attention S2E2 with Amelia Ihshak, The Emerging Reader in All of Us, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/the-emerging-reader-in-all-of-us/ 
• Ward Farnsworth, Classical English Style, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49831663 
• William Carlos Williams
• Lidia Yuknavitch Corporeal Writing: https://www.corporealwriting.com/about-corporeal and https://youtu.be/o9pUjixyWI4?si=4u4VaF4gE_N3yYsT
• Toni Ann Johnson
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies