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Benjamin Dreyer

  • Writer, Freelance
  • Managing Editor, Random House
New York
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer’s English and Stet! (the game!) • America's Copy Editor™ • he/him/his #CopyeditingProTip
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A Long Game

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By Benjamin Dreyer
| Substack
First things first, please feel free to pause right here, drop whatever it is you might be doing, and preorder ’s marvelous new A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction, which goes on sale in the U S of A this coming Tuesday, December 2 (and, over on the other side of the big water, January 1).
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"a bit carried away"

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By Benjamin Dreyer
| Substack
Hey, hi, sorry to interrupt your holiday weekend, and yet. Check out this paragraph from an article posted by The New York Times yesterday afternoon: The Moms For Liberty can get a bit carried away—one of their local chapters once accidentally quoted Adolf Hitler (“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”) and then issued an apology disavowing the Führer (“We should not have quoted him in our newsletter”)—but still, their summit on Friday made for a good case study.
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Walz's Turn

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By Benjamin Dreyer
| Substack
Going forward, we will be sure to speak of Tim Walz’s vice presidential candidacy. Tim, Gwen, and the kids are the Walzes. The Walzes’ home is in St. Paul, Minn. The campaign of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is Harris and Walz’s campaign, because they share it. We might otherwise speak of Harris’s and Walz’s (respective) families. What could be simpler? Meanwhile, the unofficial Minnesota state dish is referred to as hot dish or hotdish. A Word About... is a reader-supported publication.
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