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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 23, 2015, 09:25:35 pm ---At home I've started to read the article in the anniversary issue by the copy editor. Her examples of why the serial comma is still useful are hysterically funny. ;D
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This article is very good. I think I should share it with my coworkers.
In passing the author mentions Annie Proulx, whose style, no doubt, is a copy editor's nightmare. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
Ian Frazier's account of Ellin Mackay (Mrs. Irving) Berlin, and her article that explained why 1920s New York debutantes went to cabarets, is lovely. :) Frazier makes it sound as if the article saved the magazine, and perhaps it did.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 25, 2015, 10:35:56 am ---In passing the author mentions Annie Proulx, whose style, no doubt, is a copy editor's nightmare. ;D
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I seem to remember AP mentioning that there were a lot of edits before the story was finally published, and then they accidentally left out the prologue altogether!
I'm enjoying this issue and the articles you mention as well.
Jeff Wrangler:
I never read the poetry in The New Yorker. Or, rather, there is one exception: I always read the Greetings, Friends at the end of each year.
And the world, or, at least, the American educational system, really is going to Hell when some people have never heard of Jabberwocky. :(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 27, 2015, 10:41:41 am ---And the world, or, at least, the American educational system, really is going to Hell when some people have never heard of Jabberwocky. :(
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Wait, who hasn't? ???
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