Archive for June, 2008

Stet

Post it now, fix it later: Are we in the last days of the newsroom copy editor?

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Online altar for Twain fanatics

When Charles Ives’ fiancee Harmony Twichell presented her beloved to Mark Twain for approval, “Twain drew out his first overlook, finally ordering ‘Spin him around — let’s see the aft!’” I learned this thanks to Jack Pendarvis, who idolizes Ives as passionately as I do Twain (but probably less conflictedly), and who, after our all our excited back-and-forth, said, “I . . .

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