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This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can—this newsletter is not exactly part of my work hustle, but the distraction of financial anxiety does often contribute to my own sentences being merely pretty good rather than perfect.
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Perfect Sentences, 177
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Published: May 17, 2026 12:58
I didn’t know it at the time that I was working with him, but he was kind of like the Marlon Brando of seagulls. Jaume Collet-Serra in an interview in Vulture (but you can avoid the paywall by going to its cross-posting on Slate) And to anyone who’s…
Perfect Sentences, 176
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Published: May 10, 2026 13:16
Definitely, the ante continues to get upped in the vulgarity sweepstakes. Richard Kelly in an interview with GQ We went to see Wallace Shawn introduce a screening of Southland Tales at Metrograph, because watching Southland Tales on the Fourth of July is a…
Perfect Sentences, 175
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Published: May 3, 2026 13:17
Whenever there’s some tension around the legality of what people are doing with their bodies, interesting things always happen. Rennie McDougall in an interview for Urban Omnibus I actually read this sentence months ago when doing a first-pass edit on this…
Perfect Sentences, 174
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Published: April 26, 2026 13:41
A correction: in Perfect Sentences 172 I mistakenly attributed a sentence submitted by Joe to Closing Time by Joseph Heller. It was in A Right to Be Merry by Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C. We regret the error. Voice has no relationship to becoming rock, so…
Perfect Sentences, 173
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Published: April 19, 2026 13:10
It became a structure of feeling I could no longer inhabit. Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, Caroline Tracey Runner-up sentences: I wanted to be a cowboy because I wanted to earn the West like a merit badge. I didn't even know whether I liked women,…
Perfect Sentences, 172
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Published: April 12, 2026 14:10
Violence, if we must, let's talk about it, but by seeing it first for what it is: a word. "Here and Now for Bobby Seale", Jean Genet for Ramparts, translated by Judy Oringer Via Zito on Bluesky. If the Middle Ages existed before capitalism, which is the…
Perfect Sentences, 171
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Published: April 5, 2026 14:19
A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying", Kevin T. Baker for The Guardian Submitted by Anne. Even though you make…
Perfect Sentences, 170
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Published: March 29, 2026 14:45
The high sign that rules this summer is increasing fragmentation. "Apartheid U.S.A.", Audre Lorde It’s like watching a squirrel try to disarm a nuclear weapon—no surprise that he fails to do it, but the reader is left wondering why he even wanted to try.…
Perfect Sentences, 169
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Published: March 22, 2026 15:13
This was not an especially adept reading week for me because I was at a conference and conference brain does not lend itself to a lot of close reading. Thanks to people who sent submissions! A situation called scrotum catastrophe, in which the entire…
Perfect Sentences, 168
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Published: March 15, 2026 12:46
There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy Anyone clothed by the US is literally NAKED! Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf on Twitter Submitted by R. This brain-fart-to-built-UI pipeline is so fast…