I heard snippets of an interview with Benjamin Dreyer, Elizabeth's Strout's editor. Strout is the author of Olive Kitteridge (and I learned a new Olive book called Olive, Again).
I will listen again online after my nap, but wanted to pass this on to all you writers out there in Literary Land:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/05/benjamin-dreyer-grammar-guide
For all of us who cringe when we hear certain grammatical rules broken, here we have it straight from the horse's mouth that certain old rules can be broken with impunity. However, if we break them, we have to break them with good reason, and we have to expect other grammarians to raise an eyebrow!
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