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Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf

The Point Podcast

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The Evolution of Proofreading

Gloria Borger says she comes from a family of compulsive proofreaders. Her husband has kind of caught the bug and marks grammatical errors for her, too. "I think it's in some ways a very annoying trait but maybe as with most people their good and bad characteristics are kind of inextricably combined" She writes that Virginia Woolf could write about a dead moth if she could get away with it so can I.

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