A Word About...
Benjamin DreyerWords. Words about words. Copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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The Greeks Had a Word for It
In the 2013 film Philomena, Judi Dench, as the eponymous1 heroine who is in the habit of narrating in excruciating detail the plots of the romance novels she’s fond of,2 recounts at one point a church wedding scene in which masses of aristo...
The Realms of the Unreal
Today is the birthday of artist Henry Darger, so in his honor, here’s my Henry Darger story:
A Note on Nuance
So there I was, about to comment publicly that a New York Times op-ed was “meretricious junk,”1 when it occurred to me, with a sudden lurching instinct for self-preservation of the sort I wish made itself known to me more frequently, like w...
Counting Our Stock
When, as a young person in the mid-1960s, I first developed a fascination for horror films, a fascination that persisted till, well, it still persists, I was particularly taken with an image that would show up in various books on the subjec...
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Benjamin Dreyer, the author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!), is the retired copy chief and managing editor of Random House.
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