Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ – NYTimes.com
No one else — not the author, not the editor, not the fact checker — caught it, but to Mary Norris, the offending word might as well have been wearing leather hot pants and doing the cancan right there on the page. And so she rescued a colleague from the special circle of mortification reserved for writers for The New Yorker who confuse “flour” with “flower.” It was her first catch. “I was thrilled to have found such a flagrant […]
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