Even literary critics can be very clumsy writers. “After the writer’s sudden disappearance in August of 2015. . .” writes one critic. In reality, the writer didn’t suddenly disappear. He died of lung cancer. People who don’t know what happened to the writer might conclude he was kidnapped or went missing.
We all need to be very careful with our writing. And I say it as somebody who is still wriggling with shame after writing, “Since Franco’s downfall, Spain has established a working democracy.” As my thesis advisor pointed out when she read this atrocious sentence, “What downfall? He died.”
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