Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social

This is fascinating: the friendship, with writing advice, of Cormac McCarthy and Roger Payne (the whale biologist). But I wonder: McCarthy's writing was quite distinctive, and not to everyone's taste. Would McCarthy's advice improve all biologists' writing?? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/b...

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Being edited by McCarthy would be intense. It's got me wondering what other famous science papers/books would be like if edited by famous authors...

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