Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other Thrilling Developments from the 2019 American…
You could feel the excitement in the room when a slide appeared with the heading “HYPHENS!”
Marilyn Schwartz and Erika Bűky talk about the new Copyeditor’s Handbook and…
Since it was first published almost twenty years ago, The Copyeditor’s Handbook has served as both textbook and guide for copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications. The revised…
The Comma Queen and the Internet’s Copy Chief on What Matters to…
We asked Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s “comma queen” and author, most recently, of Greek to Me, and Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House and author of Dreyer’s Englis…
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference
The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
Everyone Needs an Editor
by Gabrielle C. Durham Have you ever been asked to donate to the worthy cause of sending the Lady Loins to the state semi-finals? I have, and I think I gave a couple bucks because of the doubtlessly…
Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor
Nell Frizzell: Novelist Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter's alliance shows how much more than wielding a blade goes into this relationship
Website Getting on Just Fine After Laying of Copyeditor
Popular review website GearJam.com “said goood bye to there steemed copyeditor” Devin Warren because of falling ad revenue.
Blessed Are teh Copy Editors
Copy editors AWOL? The Washington Post was embarrassed this year when it placed the wrong gender symbol on Page One of its Express. In a recent Lingua Franca post, I had reason to mention Rogue…
By dismantling its copy desk, The New York Times is making a…
Two decades ago, I wrote a critical essay titled “Goodbye Copy Desks, Hello Trouble.” What prompted that Newspaper Research Journal piece was a brief experiment in eliminating free-standing copy de…
Copy Editors Are OCD. Thank Goodness.
Jorge Luis Borges: largely unedited (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia) “The universe needs more good editors,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in a letter to his students. He added, “God knows.” Vonnegut was right. Last…