Book of the Week: Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon

"Taking as his starting point a sentence that has intrigued him for years or, in some cases, come into his ken more recently, Brian Dillon in Suppose a Sentence ranges through the centuries, exploring the associations of what he observes and discovers about his object of study and its writer, through biographical anecdote, linguistic speculation, and a look at related writings. This rich and various collection resembles a beguiling, inspiriting conversation with a personable and wry intelligence who keeps you happily up late, incites you to note some follow-up reading, and opens your eyes further to the multifarious syntactical and emotional capacities of even a few joined words of English." — Lydia Davis

>>Read Thomas's review. 

>>On a sentence by Elizabeth Hardwick. 

>>A wonderful, beautiful, almost failed sentence by Virginia Woolf. 

>>On the perfect prose of a Joan Didion photo caption. 

>>Wee have a winding sheete. 

>>On the sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

>>A desire for the sentence. 

>>Book to hear Dillon discuss the book with Olivia Lang. 

>>Barthes and Me. 

>>A short history of hypochondria. 

>>Dillon on Essayism. 

>>Read Thomas's review of Essayism. 

>>Read Thomas's review of In the Dark Room. 

>>Ruins.

>>Dillon at Frieze. 

>>Dillon in Cabinet. 

>>Start supposing.