Joseph Epstein
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Punctuation Matters (opens the original)
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An indifferent grade-school student, a bored high-school one, my least favorite subject was English grammar, with punctuation a close second. Best I was able in those papers I wrote for school I steered clear of punctuation; the only punctuation I availed myself of was the capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, the period at its conclusion. Semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses, and the rest of punctuation was, in a cliché of the day, all Greek to me. Today I have come to delight in pu
Literature Created Behind the Scene (opens the original)
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My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow film criticism of his client Vernon Young. An Englishman, Young will always be memorable for me for informing Americans who too quickly called him by his first name that "My good friends call me Mr. Young. Won't you do likewise." Georges Borchardt was a slender, well
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