Emma Edits

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/magazine/the-case-for-semicolons.html

The Case for Semicolons There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside.

Is Line Editing a Lost Art? “Extraneous baggage”—that was how Albert Erskine, line editor of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, described slow sections of the submitted manuscript. McCarthy listened. He spent months revising and cond…