Tracy Hahn-Burkett discusses lessons for writers from a book about the Broadway hit "Hamilton," written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator, and cultural critic Jeremy McCarter, including this on the careful use of detail: "Hamilton flirted with his sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler, via the placement of a comma in a letter he wrote her. Flirting via comma! This detail, so specific to the time and place of the story, blew Miranda away, and he made sure he used it."
June 26, 2016
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