Showing posts with label Tabloid City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tabloid City. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Modifying a Longstanding Tradition


Something really stuck in my mind about the novel I recently read (Tabloid City by Pete Hamill) - not the plot or the writing, but the… punctuation. 

Instead of quotes to indicate dialogue, the book uses a beginning dash.  See a few sentences here in which the tabloid’s editors, Briscoe and Logan, are talking about a murder being investigated by a young reporter called Fonseca:

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