feathertoucheditingMay 24Tables That Eat Grass and Crows That Fly Upside DownIn the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...
feathertoucheditingApr 20Diseases Named after PatientsThis passionately written book (The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider) describes the giant strides medicine has made since its...
feathertoucheditingMar 6The Mainstreaming of the Word "Shit" in Personal Transformation ParlanceThe book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...
feathertoucheditingFeb 28Incident in an Editing OfficeOn a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...
feathertoucheditingDec 25, 2021The Bookseller Who Cannot ReadThis is a wonderful story from the People's Archive of Rural India about a bookseller who cannot read. Selling books is not just a trade...
feathertoucheditingDec 9, 2021The Book That Wrote Me a LetterThis email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...
feathertoucheditingJun 8, 2021Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and PronunciationIn a previous post (on researcher name coincidences), I mentioned Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation by...
feathertoucheditingMar 21, 2021Researcher Name CoincidenceHumor and academia are an unlikely combination, and I didn't think they could coexist until I read Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly...