Chris Heath at Smithsonian magazine found something: “We Rediscovered Robert Caro’s Abandoned Novel About an Intrepid Journalist Buried in His Archives.”
Yikes — it sounds like an Edgar Allan Poe story. That headline needs rewriting. Maybe like so:
In Robert Caro’s Archives, an Abandoned Novel About an Intrepid JournalistAnd there’s more fiction.
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[This post is no. 128 in a series dedicated to improving stray bits of professional public prose. I know that the headline of a magazine and newspaper article is not typically the work of the article’s writer. I included Chris Heath’s name to credit him as the writer who dug out the abandoned novel.]
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The title made me wonder if Caro had died!
No—he is present with the journalist…
PS. That was me, Fresca. (Also alive and well, but not blogging)
Yikes again! He's sold his archives, so there's lots of new attention to the writing behind or before the Moses and Johnson bios.
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