Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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And Things That Go Bump in the Night
Now that’s it’s officially Watch Scary Movies and/or Make Listicles of Scary Movies Month, I thought I’d compile my efforts from last year into one big Scary Listicle, for all your listicle reading and scariness needs.
A Word About... is...
a book!
My pal Peter Sokolowski, longtime champion Merriam-Webster lexicographer, has written an enthralling history of English-language dictionaries, and it’s a massive amount of fun, and they even let me blurb it!
“Peter Sokolowski’s enthrall...
To Tell the Truth
I lied.
One evening a little over a week ago, I took note (at another venue) that it was about to be the birthday of the illustrator Arthur Rackham,1 and in his honor I posted, from his marvelous 1907 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Ad...
Happy Aldo Ray’s birthday!
After three intense, for me, days of travel, talking talking talking, and travel, I’m more than a bit brain-dead today, but today is/would have been the 100th birthday of the actor Aldo Ray, and I will grab up any opportunity to celebrate t...
“Copy editors are like priests.”
Quite a number of years ago now I was invited to a party at the home of a novelist whose book I’d worked on as a Random House production editor. It was a blazingly hot summer afternoon, and there were perhaps more people in attendance than...
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