On Who Copyedits The Copy Editors?
The hardest errors to spot are your own. Across the board.
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On How Did the Recession Completely Avoid Office Rampage Killings?
@joeclark Your choice, Nerd. At any rate, I publish all the books I read.
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On How Your Kid's Reading Tests Get Made
Corrected hed:
How Your Childrens’ Reading Tests Get Made [sic]
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On How Did the Recession Completely Avoid Office Rampage Killings?
You mean The Rapture is the most disturbing picture ever made. (Runner-up: Seconds.)
Additionally, my copy of Going Postal has been held up at the library for about two years. It’s probably sitting at the bottom of a truck somewhere.
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On How to Blow Through Airport Security for Only $100
@boyofdestiny Do you think I play arcade games?
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On Man Storms Off Internet: Goodbye, Chris Jones!
Burning down one’s Library of Alexandria endears one poorly to his children and literary executors. What if we found every issue of Esquire and ripped out his articles? (This actually happens, albeit rarely, in books where a court injunction is granted after publication.)
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On How 25 National Magazine Award Nominations Went To 25 Male Writers
I know you people don't give two shits, but the possessives of men and women are men’s and women’s.
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On Judging Books
It’s an amazing work, the kind that stays in your imagination. I see Clive Owen in the movie. (Though China Miéville rather poo-pooed the idea that a novel, if it eats its greens and grows up strong, should fulfill its destiny and become a film.)
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On Comic Books Gay
“Dicuss”? Is that like the “javlin”?