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For Cormac McCarthy’s birthday, beautiful hand-lettered homage by Debbie Millman, available as a print here.

Cormac McCarthy writing history and literature lit

James Joyce is a good model for punctuation. He keeps it to an absolute minimum. There’s no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.

Cormac McCarthy’s rather extreme rules of punctuation. Pair with Stephen King on why you should avoid adverbs at all costs, then counter with some more balanced advice from our ongoing archive of wisdom on writing.