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I Love the Way This Man Writes
This is completely out of thin air, and I haven’t even finished reading The Tuesday newsletter yet, but this phrase utterly destroyed me and I have to share it.
The range of expression in the typical American newspaper’s op-ed pages is like paint-by-numbers for people who can’t count past four.
Kevin D. Williamson and I share a love for the English language and its versatility as a tool and a toy. His use of it is a continual delight, whether I happen to agree with his point or not. Which is as it should be. If you haven’t subscribed to The Tuesday via NRO, please do so, you won’t regret it.
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One of the sharpest minds out there, and a skilled linguist.
Yes, KDW is a wonderful writer. I sometimes agree with him, sometimes not, but I always marvel at his use of the language.
He is the Mencken of our time.
I remember reading one his shaper-tongued essays, which absolutely destroyed an opposing writer, and thinking to myself, “Never ever give Kevin Williamson cause to write poorly of me.”
His prose is excellent. Sometimes his thinking is a little murky.
“Move to where the jobs are.” Thanks, Kevster. I’ve lived in six states in six years. The gig economy sucks.
It’s pure Shakespeare when read in Sam Kinnison’s voice.
KDW is a national treasure. I sent a language grump to him for his consideration for The Tuesday. He replied that he agreed with me and would write about it. I’m inordinately, irrationally thrilled by that. Hey! It’s Tuesday. I need to find today’s edition.
I don’t expect to agree with anyone all the time.
I’m with you on the gig economy, I hate it. Also, there are sometimes reasons to stay in a place and fight, rather than being pushed out by bullies. See VDH: Love of central California. Or me, here in western New York.
I didn’t know he had a newsletter out. He is a really great writer and a sharp thinker. Thank you for bringing the newsletter to my attention. I’ll probably subscribe.
I find that I have to use my reading time carefully, so I’m not able to keep up with people that I’d like to, whether it be on twitter, or podcasts or what not. Another writer who I thought was just an absolute treasure was Mark Steyn. But its weird, its been ages since I’ve “checked in” to see what he was writing or talking about. I just had other things to do I guess.
Even Homer nods.
Here are a few of my favorite KDW lines:
Yes! I thought that quote was a gem, too.
OK.
While I will never, ever, unto the end of time when the stars gutter out and the lonely atoms of the universe spread out in a dark silent infinite realm of eternal darkness, forgive KW for stepping on a bit I was doing on the 2018 NR Cruise, he is one of the best writers we have, an iconoclastic thinker, and a model for not giving in to the whims of the crowd. His byline is a guarantee I’ve a good read in store. Also, I am plotting my revenge.
I was on that cruise. Please, forces of karma, allow me to witness the act that restores balance to the universe.
If you have any leftover ideas you don’t use on KW, maybe you could share them with us?
Absolutely. I can’t count the times that I saw a KDW article, thought that it was on a subject on which I wasn’t interested, and yet was fascinated when I read it.
As a would-be writer, I read lines like this and despair.