Cormac McCarthy Hates Semicolons

…And other revelations from the recent news of his new copy editing gig. He’s pretty harsh about exclamation points, too:

The novelist’s corrections appear to be more literary than scientific. In addition to suggested some rephrasing, Mr. Krauss, said, Mr. McCarthy “made me promise he could excise all exclamation points and semicolons, both of which he said have no place in literature.” (A quick digital search through Mr. McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy” and several other novels finds no examples of the offending punctuation.)

(via ArtsBeat)

  1. ringtales reblogged this from fsgbooks and added:
    i love cormac’s passion. long after we can’t remember who dan brown is, they will teach cormac mccarthy in universities
  2. thewham reblogged this from fsgbooks
  3. jqdonahue reblogged this from fsgbooks
  4. brainbloom reblogged this from fsgbooks
  5. stedit reblogged this from fsgbooks
  6. englishmajorinthemaking reblogged this from fsgbooks
  7. thepoetrytribune reblogged this from fsgbooks
  8. mickeymousehasgrownupaclown reblogged this from fsgbooks
  9. This was featured in #Lit
  10. dj-laptop reblogged this from fsgbooks
  11. fsgbooks posted this