Key points A systematic writing framework offers a method for dramatically improving the teaching of writing. This method received only limited uptake, despite high-profile research publications and textbooks. A focus on writing style might have limited the method's impacts....

The following is from Hari Kunzru's Blue Ruin . Kunzru is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist . He is a regular contributor to The New York...