Learning to Speak American by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Learning to Speak American by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.

“I had started the editing process in a spirit of easygoing cooperation, determined to set aside any pride in Englishness and work to produce the best package possible for an American public. […] Prose is not something that remains the same when words are substituted—“jeans” for “dungarees,” for example—or when one synonym is preferred to another. Rhythm is important, and assonance likewise.”- Tim Parks