Stet A Memoir

"Athill has written a book that should please anyone who cares about 20th-century literature and its creators....The title of her book, STET, refers to an international editing convention: When a copyeditor wants to restore a deletion, she puts a row of dots under the passage in question and writes 'stet' in the margin -- Latin for 'let it stand' -- thus instructing the printer to restore the deleted words. 'This book,' Athill writes, 'is an attempt to "stet" some part of my experience. . . . Others have given better accounts of our trade. . . . All this book is, is the story of one old ex-editor who imagines that she will feel a little less dead if a few people read it.' More than a few will, I expect."Athill, Diana is the author of 'Stet A Memoir', published 2002 under ISBN 9780802138620 and ISBN 0802138624.