Performing magic with point-of-view

For Nieman Storyboard, Dan Vergano dissects Lawrence Weschler's 1994 article in Harper's about an offbeat Los Angeles museum, and is awed by the writer's sleight of hand to shift from third person, to second person, to first person, to internal narrative. "The real lesson Weschler offers is not so much in showing the possibilities raised by moving the camera view around on the reader, as in the directness with which he performs his tricks."

November 20, 2011

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