Tag Archives: The Stars in Their Courses

Foote on Lee

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

In an interview that appeared in the Summer 1999 issue of The Paris Review, Shelby Foote offered a few thoughts about the battle of Gettysburg, which he’d famously written about in “The Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign” (part … Continue reading →

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A Quick Writing Lesson with Foote and Faulkner

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

One of the important lessons I tell my writing students is, “Punctuation serves as a guidepost to tell your readers how to read your writing.” To illustrate my point, I use a sentence from Shelby Foote’s Stars in Their Courses: The … Continue reading →

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