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Tables That Eat Grass and Crows That Fly Upside Down

In the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...

Diseases Named after Patients

This passionately written book (The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider) describes the giant strides medicine has made since its...

The Mainstreaming of the Word "Shit" in Personal Transformation Parlance

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

The Bookseller Who Cannot Read

This 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...

The Book That Wrote Me a Letter

This 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...

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On my home page, I wrote that academic copyediting "is hardly the most exciting profession in the world, but neither is it the most...

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