Peter Robins 

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

Peter Robins: What else is going on in bookspace?
  
  


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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