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...sailing duties with a paid crew, the author and three of his companions stood literary watch. Evan Galbraith, a former ambassador to France, was drafting his memoirs. Richard Clurman, once chief of correspondents for TIME, was attending to an ambitious work about the press, and Buckley's son Christopher copyread his humorous novel The White House Mess...
...less visible prints on the 884-page manuscript belong to Lynn Chalmers, one of twelve staff copy editors at Simon & Schuster. It normally takes about a month to copyread a book, but Chalmers completed the job in two weeks. She corrected punctuation, broke long segments into paragraphs, and checked facts. Inconsistencies were flagged on strips of pink paper and attached to the offending pages...
With all this intramural chitchat going on, it was only a question of time until a column was started to copyread the columnists. Three months ago, the New York Star launched such a column as an experiment. It has worked so well that last week the Star was planning to run "So They Said," by Frank Columbine, three times a week...
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