(What moves you most in a work of literature?) JA: Accuracy of language and perception — the writer is not striving for effect and gets out of the wa… - Julia Alvarez

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(What moves you most in a work of literature?) JA: Accuracy of language and perception — the writer is not striving for effect and gets out of the way to let us see the world through the lens of language. I love what the poet Stanley Kunitz said about dreaming of “an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.” That pretty much sums up what I most admire in a work of literature.