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Editing Lydia Millet

One of the fun aspects of editing Lydia Millet is that I get e-mails that contain statements like this:

Yes, there's a whimsical colon use, certainly. I will check as you suggest. Society has moved, I feel, too far away from both the colon and the semi-colon. I do what I can to correct the trend. I did not use to feel this way. Writing culture teaches avoidance of both these days.

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