Can anyone tell me the implication of the following sentences? I really cannot understand it. 1. From the California high desert to a Texas prison yard, from Ozarks dive bars to the shadows of Hollywood, these stories burst with gutter grandeur and criminal mythology. Harper burns through prison-tatted flesh to expose his characters’ hardened, scarred but still beating hearts. And he does it with a virtuoso prose style that mixes pulp panache and literary flare into pure nitroglycerin. 2. A harrowing, hallowing ode to those whose options boil down to a bullet, a bank or a strange stretch of highway. American Letters has found in Harper an agent worthy to take the crime fiction tradition into the 21st century.” These are two comments on an American writer named Jordan Harper and his collection of short stories. But I just don't understand what exactly they mean! I'd appreciate it if anyone could rephraze those words and make them easy to digest?

Is this sentence wrong according to grammar? All you can do is try your best in math as well as in other subjects. Should it be "All you can do is to try your best......"?

What is wrong with this sentence? Please have a look : There having no buses, we had to walk home.

Please have a look : What is wrong with this sentence? There having no buses, we had to walk home.

Посмотри на это предложение Оператор---тот,кто снимает фильм на видеокамеру, был немцем, не "понимавшим" ни слова по-русски Почему здесь используется слово "понимавший", а не "понимающий"?

Как пассивная конструкция в русском языке? Я читал это предложение: На железнодорожном вокзале запрещается курить и мусорить! Оно употребляет пассивную конструкцию в выражении, как по-английски "Smoking and throwing garbage are prohibited at the train station". Можно сказать по-другому? : На железнодорожном вокзале запрещено курить и мусорить! Это тоже правильное? Если да, какая разница между ними по пассивной конструции?

Please have a look at the following sentence The destruction of the twin towers "summoned" shock and anger throughout the world. Can I use the word "evoked" to replace "summoned" in this sentence?

How do you understand this sentence? The author of the collection has always been bossing the spotlight at important social functions, "so much so that" many of his colleagues are made to feel being left out. Couldn't it just be "so that many of his colleagues are feeling being left out" ? I don't understand what "so much so that" means in here.