June 2012
4 posts
“It no longer occurs to me to query the use of four-letter words, even when they...”
– Copy editing profanity in The New Yorker
“Sometimes, said Julia, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either...”
– Brideshead Revisited
London’s nickname isn’t as ubiquitous as The Big Apple or The City of Lights, but The Big Smoke is a clunky city, a confederation of neighborhoods that used to be towns tied together with string. Loving London is not anything new. Samuel Johnson said that a person who is tired of London is tired of life. Read Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net while chasing buses in Hackney; it’s...
“Copy editors provide a safety net for a publication, catching most of the...”
– Why ‘Amercia’ Needs Copy Editors 