This post is an op-ed by Ben Bratt that was originally published in the Wall Street Journal in March, 2017. It draws on his book, Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing. Here's a pdf of the original. In this essay, he reports on some of … Continue reading Ben Bratt — Men Shout and Women Scream, at Least in Fiction
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