A WORLD WITHOUT WHOM: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Emmy J Favilla
Bloomsbury
392 pages, Rs 599
By asking me to review this book, this newspaper’s books editor has taken a leap up the ranking of dark minds. And that has as much to do with the book as the reviewer.
This reviewer spent an age in the newsrooms of newspapers — mostly this one, just like the books editor — and magazines at a time when production value was considered paramount. When mixing metaphors was worse than pairing a brown belt with black shoes. When
