Category: Copyediting

I have a weak spot for anything headlined “Against [whatever].” I cannot resist. A cranky, contrarian opinion against something the rest of us agree is just fine? Bring it. Please. I was under the impression this genre began with Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation, “the mother of all contemporary click-bait intellectual polemics,” as a 2014 New…

Earlier this month, when I was off work recuperating from surgery and still in an anesthesia-induced haze (I’m fine, thanks for asking), I found myself reading the September 2009 issue of College English. As you do. I had stumbled onto the article, “The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White,” by Catherine Prendergast, an…