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