Cormac McCarthy's parallel career revealed – as a scientific copy editor!
Physics writer whose work McCarthy revised says the novelist has a particular loathing for semicolons and exclamation marks
Exclamation marks and semicolons "have no place in literature", according to Cormac McCarthy, who has emerged as the unlikely copy editor of a biography of the physicist Richard Feynman.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 21 February, 2012
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