Typos have become a fact of life even in well-published books now, and I've trained myself to ignore them, but I am often shocked by how badly some booksneed to be trimmed.
Ms. PROSE: Well, yeah, and I also think - I mean this sounds like a sort of slightly nutty thing to say - but I also think that certain books just kind of pop into your hands at the moment you need to write - to read them.