Stet

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

Archive 2003-11-01 M-mv 2003

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

10.03 M-mv 2003

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

11.03 M-mv 2003

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2003

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

11.03 M-mv 2003

Reading Diana Athill's Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward.

11.03 M-mv 2003

Edit implies choosing, curating, removing, which is why Jeanne Beker's collection could more aptly be called Stet, proofreader shorthand for 'keep' (i.e. disregard the change).

canada.com Top Stories 2010

Edit implies choosing, curating, removing, which is why Jeanne Beker's collection could more aptly be called Stet, proofreader shorthand for 'keep' (i.e. disregard the change).

canada.com Top Stories 2010

In "Stet," she admits that partly on her advice, her publishing company decided to stop publishing Philip Roth after his third book.

A Long, Full Literary Life 2009

An author friend I told this story to said he knew an author so enraged by rampant lack of imagination on the part of a copyeditor that he just wrote across page one, "Stet the whole goddamned thing."

Lev Raphael: Wrangling With Copyeditors Lev Raphael 2011