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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, 142
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Published: September 14, 2025 12:48
Very submission-heavy week—the current dissertation chapter is in some ways not as intense of a writing task as the previous two now that I know it doesn't have to be 20,000 words, but has involved a lot more writing whole paragraphs and then realizing…
Perfect Sentences, 141
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Published: September 7, 2025 15:01
I submitted two dissertation chapters this past week, which was a little anticlimactic but still relieved. Thanks to the sentence submitters who kept this from being a very bare bones newsletter entry. And, you know, I hate competing symmetrically with…
Perfect Sentences, 140
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Published: August 31, 2025 15:31
I’m in pretty deep on dissertation writing for the next few months, which means less time for recreational sentence reading. Submissions appreciated—not just from a “having material for the newsletter” perspective but from needing reminders of other things…
Perfect Sentences, 139
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Published: August 24, 2025 13:43
In fairness to Kneecap and Sally Rooney, if I had to embroil myself in a battle of wits with a world leader, I’d probably pick Keir Starmer too. “Surrealing in the Years: Starmer has chosen the wrong opponent in Sally Rooney”, Carl Kinsella for The Journal…
Perfect Sentences, 138
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Published: August 17, 2025 13:46
Another fact: Kincaid hates England. “The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic and Literary Giant”, Mychal Denzel Smith for The New Republic Monopoly men fight for the privilege to spy on us and rob us blind. “luddite”, Billie Shafran for her…
Perfect Sentences, 137
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Published: August 10, 2025 13:33
An update: this newsletter just hit the “over 1,000 subscribers” mark (welcome, new readers!). This is flattering, but also means that now I have to pay Buttondown $29 a month. Luckily I’m not fully out of pocket for this, thanks to the generous paying…
Perfect Sentences, 136
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Published: August 3, 2025 16:00
Sort of a shorter sentence collection this week. I’m going upstate on Wednesday partly for a weirdo art thing organized by some friends and partly for dissertation work, so next week will probably be largely submissions-driven. In geologic time, all…
Perfect Sentences, 135
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Published: July 27, 2025 15:33
Syntax buckles beneath the pressure of empty stomachs. “Beneath the Howl of Hunger”, Alaa Alqaisi for ArabLit Quarterly Quartz is lovely, translucent, and pure but, frankly, a little inarticulate. Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks,…
Perfect Sentences, 134
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Published: July 20, 2025 14:05
All smiles have become archaic. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, Ursula K. Le Guin Submitted by Wesley. But the United States are a Cartesian vortex, carrying everything with them, grading everything to the level of monotony. Alexander von Humboldt in…
Perfect Sentences, 133
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Published: July 13, 2025 15:14
Besides the bygone stairway to hog heaven, the scans also revealed the foundation of what was once a soap factory. “Ghost stairs and pig bones sit in the way of new NYC train tunnel”, Stephen Nessen for Gothamist Incredible headline, also. All of the…