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Shelby Foote SHELBY FOOTE
The Art of Fiction No. 158
Interviewed by Carter Coleman, Donald Faulkner, William Kennedy
Issue 151, Summer 1999
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INTERVIEWER
I've heard that when the third Civil War volume was finished and you turned it in, it went straight to typesetting without being copyedited.

FOOTE
So did volume two. I had a funny experience with copy readers back at the outset. They worship reference books and dictionaries and all that ticky kind of thing. We had a sure-enough expert for volume one. He complained that I was using the phrase by ordinary instead of ordinarily. He said,
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