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What's so subversive about copy editors?

2/8/2019

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BOOK REVIEW: The Subversive Copy Editor, by Carol Fisher Saller
Aren’t they pinched-nosed mousy types with bifocals and buttoned-up blouses? Carol Fisher Saller, author of The Subversive Copy Editor (University of Chicago Press, 2009), thinks not.

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The Curious Mind of a Copy Editor

2/6/2019

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BOOK REVIEW: Between You & Me, by Mary Norris
Should it be “short, balding man” or “short balding man”? “Bad hair day” or “bad-hair day”? Mary Norris, a copy editor at The New Yorker for over thirty years, relishes these sorts of editorial decisions.
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