http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/delete-key-awards-finalist-1-%e2%80%93-steve-martin-and-roz-chast%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98the-alphabet-from-a-to-y-with-bonus-letter-z%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/delete-key-awards-finalist-1-%e2%80%93-steve-martin-and-roz-chast%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98the-alphabet-from-a-to-y-with-bonus-letter-z%e2%80%99/#comment-5736 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:54:24 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=823#comment-5736 “No one wants to reign him in” — that’s my guess, too. Authors who make a lot of money for their publishers can often get away with much more than the little-known writers can. And in this case there were two of them …

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/delete-key-awards-finalist-1-%e2%80%93-steve-martin-and-roz-chast%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98the-alphabet-from-a-to-y-with-bonus-letter-z%e2%80%99/#comment-5724 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:30:25 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=823#comment-5724 Having decided to read your list in numeric order, I will say that this one comes first in giving it the award. No, I haven’t read it, neither am I so steeped in political correctness that I can’t take a few jokes. But hunchbacks and misspelling plurals just make me feel that:
1) S Martin, who I typically enjoy, is trying too hard and no one wants to reign him in.
2) There are some excellent copyeditors/proofers out there and no one should be so blithe as to think they don’t need one or two or six of them before going to print.

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