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An "enraged letter" from Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul

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Shaun Usher
May 10, 2022
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. V. S. Naipaul in 1991. (Photo by Neal Boenzi/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Copy editors are an essential cog in the wheel of publishing, and a world without them would be an unkempt one, its verbose books peppered with redundant-hyphens, needless repetition, misplaced semicolons; dangling participles, needless repetition, and factual inaccuracies. D…

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