13 December 2009

On The Road - The Original Scroll

My latest candidate for editorial mishap is on p. 17 of On the Road - The Original Scroll, published in 2007, by Penguin Books. The mistake in question is in Howard Cunnell's essay, "Fast This Time,"when Cunnell quotes Kerouac in lines 5-8. "Particularly" is printed as "Particuarly."

06 December 2009

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Anyone who wants to contribute to the improvement of literary quality is welcome to submit  their examples. Simply leave a comment on this post, to which I will frequently link back. In addition, at some point, I will link to this post on my link menu within the sidebar content.
I will credit you, with a link to your blog/website/etc. Unless of course, you are a spammer, or one has reasonable suspicion that you are hosting porn and/or fairly obvious hate content on your site. Obviously, such restrictions do not apply to a majority of you out there.
Please help me collect a factual list of editorial mistakes & typos. I will, at some point, fact-check, to ensure that my site is not, in itself, rife with editorial errors. You are all welcome to point out mistakes on this site, as well!

Voices From The Street - Philip K. Dick

Today's unlucky candidate for editorial mishap is Dick's Voices From The Street. The mistake in question is an apparent grammatical error on page 152: