Comment by mainland

4 days ago

If you are at all interested in punctuation---and especially the em-dash---I highly recommend Nicholson Baker's essay "Survival of the Fittest" in the NYRB:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/11/04/survival-of-the-...

I have always loved---and used---the em-dash, and after reading this essay in The Best American Essays 1994, sometime around 1995, I finally felt justified in my affection.

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