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...
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...
feathertoucheditingMar 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...