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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Robins

Philip Roth's proofs, Keats's vowels, and more

It seems that Philip Roth is, or at least was, a devil for rewriting on galleys: the surgery on the page reproduced there is all for the better, but I can see at least one sentence that's going to need correcting again on the next proof.

Intelligent conjectures about Keats's voice, without too much stress on the "cockney" cliché. (The author also provides bonus material.)

• In some places, the wordage rate on short stories has remained unadjusted for inflation over 80 years; and that's where there is a rate...

Against collaboration.

• Another wordy wonder from Wondermark: who knew that Yahweh had a collective noun?

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