Joy wrote in reply to my post about the mistakes on page 7 of
Huston's Caught Stealing turning me off.
"No, Kent, you aren't the only one. It happens to me all the
time. When I trip over dumb mistakes in newspapers, I often
send off a letter to the editor, but in books, it's too much
trouble to figure out where to complain. My excuse is that I
copyedit for a living."
Joy, I also edited as a major part of my job in educational
communications and know how mistakes can still be made.
Taking the oopposite position, I co-wrote a twice weekly
sports column in a daily paper for four years and always
dreaded my first look at the "finished" product, i.e., what
those editors did to it and got wrong. In the case of Caught
Stealing, my biggest problem was the author writing the
baseball passage about caught stealing, the book's title, and
not knowing what the term meant. At least I don't think he
would have written it the way he did if he did know.
Kent Morgan
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