Via Arts & Letters Daily, Andy Ross interviews Mary Norris about editing copy at The New Yorker.
One stubborn editor refused to believe that “arrhythmia” was spelled with two “r”s. This doesn’t come up often, but it is odd to have someone simply refuse to spell a word right because he thinks it looks funny. It’s almost admirable.
As a side note, Ross notes that there will be a master class on copy editing on 18 October as part of this year’s New Yorker Festival.