In Praise of Copy Editors

In Praise of Copy Editors. “She did all the things you dream a careful reader will do for you–noting where I might have screwed up a season, wondering if the inclusion of a detail was supposed to mean something ('wearing indigo and straw hats'–were the hats made of indigo and straw? Were the clothes indigo colored and the hats of straw?), checking all the Japanese terms that are familiar to the west–excuse me, the West–and those that are not. I was fascinated. And flattered that someone would put this much work into something I had created.” (via Maud Newton.)