I love the architecture of a perfect sentence. I am the Salieri of finding perfect Mozartian show-off sentences but am not graced with the talent to create one of my own. I mostly read criticism, reviews, and nonfiction. Here’s today’s sentence of the day as it came across my morning read. From his review of the new Candy Darling biography (Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar), Hilton Als describes someone he spotted in the East Village: “And as I watched him walk past Gem Spa, where newspapers and egg creams were sold—this was in the early nineteen-eighties—I didn’t think Bowie genderfuck so much as I thought Sue Lyon—not as Kubrick’s Lolita but as the wild, lovesick girl in the film version of Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, staunch and a little spoiled.” [New Yorker, April 15, 2024]
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