The longer you read an author's body of work, the more clearly certain patterns emerge from his stories. So you might notice, say, Shakespeare loved phallic puns . Or that Hemingway enjoyed short, choppy prose . Or that Flannery O'Connor really liked freaks . None of these are particularly controversial statements. Over at the Paris Review , Dan Piepenbring points out one such pattern he has identified in Oscar Wilde's writing. ... as I read through Wilde's plays and then some of his prose, I came to recognize a pattern: his characters were always flinging themselves onto sofas. That...
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