We’d agreed early on that my role was to subject every section of the book to the brutal question: Can the book possibly live without this? Michael Pietsch on editing DFW's Infinite Jest. From Infinite Summer, a 2009 project in collaborative study and reading of IJ. Bonus: a conversation in Slate between Pietsch and novelist…
Maps in the Public Domain
The very useful Public Domain Sherpa has both a post on how to tell if a map is in the public domain and a list of sources for public domain maps. Wikipedia also maintains a list of public domain map resources. If you need to do a great deal of map data work, another good…
An Image Copyright Rabbit-Hole
This blog post discusses one person's attempt to find the original creator of the white-on-black image of pulsar waves made iconic by its use on the cover of the 1979 Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures. (h/t JuiceCake @Metafilter)
poynter.org on the AP Stylebook dropping the distinction between "over" and "more than” this week. Grammar Girl says "whatever." Strunk & White are more concerned about "less/fewer." Language Log says "whatever." (h/t grumpybear69 @ Metafilter)
Thirty Tables of Contents
Thirty Tables of Contents: A Flickr set from the Design Observer Group Some quick-&-dirty ToC tips: Title it "Contents," not "Table of Contents." ToC should always begin on a recto page (usually page v of the front matter). If every chapter begins with an introduction, you can safely leave the "Introduction" subheadings out of the…
Fox Editing 