Mar 2, 2021About the BlogOn my home page, I wrote that academic copyediting "is hardly the most exciting profession in the world, but neither is it the most...
Apr 2BOOKSWho Was the Biologist Somerset Maugham Met in Calcutta?Somerset Maugham visited India in the 1930s (he gives the year as 1936 in the essay that is the subject of this post, but I've read that...
Feb 14LANGUAGEA Language Lesson from a Whisky BottleMy brother and I had finished two-thirds of this excellent whisky when he came down from the United States. After he left, it fell upon...
Nov 15, 2023PEOPLEVajesinh Pargi: The Proofreader-PoetI had not heard of Vajesinh Pargi; not many have. Someone had put up a meme, a few lines from one of Vajesinh's poems, on her Facebook...