"The Writing Life: The point of the long and winding sentence"

My writing professor suggested this article, in which, author, Pico Iyer, both laments and protests the slow death of the long sentence in the writing world today.

It’s an interesting phenomenon, the short sentence—the 140-characters, the quick text and the even quicker emoticon. Although I think short sentences can be powerful and vivid when used correctly (Ernest Hemingway; William Gibson), as Iyer suggests himself, the short-sentence examples I just gave rarely showcase a thoughtful regard towards language. That said, I’m not about to start sending Faulknerian texts, though I could if I really tried. What if I did try?