Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The way Henry Holt treats John Banville

I started to read ELEGY FOR APRIL by "Benjamin Black" only to be assaulted by the ugly end-of-line hyphens. On the fifth line,
inva-/lids

Later on
Motor-/car is OK, and
eve-/ning
and
mirac-/ulous are tolerable,

but there's a horror:
mon-/eylender

This strikes me as a very inhospitable first page.
Henry Holt, publishers since 1866 but for how much longer?

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