Capote rules, Hemingway drools
I've been reading some short stories by Truman Capote and, wow, the man had a simply wonderful sense of rhythm and aesthetics in prose. His sentences just seem to flow so perfectly. This, this is the model that wannabe writers should be striving for! Our current literary landscape would be a much richer if more writers had tried to emulate Capote rather than the undisputed "most influential American writer of the 20th century," Ernest Hemingway. I guess it's a lot harder to learn to write truly elegant paragraphs, with real sentence variety and a creative use of punctuation and dialogue, than to take a crack at choppy, dry minimalism. "We went to see the bulls. The bulls were good. Then we drank wine. The wine was good too." Yeah, fuck that.