tharook:

ayellowbirds:

tharook:

speaklolita:

source: New York Magazine

read the full article in all its glory here: http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/best-punctuation-marks-literature-nabokov-eliot-dickens-levi.html

That is one powerful colon.

i perhaps overuse em dashes, but now i realize it is all a poor attempt.

I wouldn’t worry too much about overuse—think of it as extra practice.