Titles starting with L from Steigerhouse

Lucky wants to become a part of Hollywood by buying a movie studio from the powerful Abe Panther, but when he insists she prove her worth, she goes undercover as a secretary to to discover just how the business works. She soon discovers that power struggles, sexual liaisons, and backstabbing are at the core of the industry she hopes to dominate, none of which discourages Lucky from embracing the glamorous, morally questionable world that is Hollywood.

This selection of editorial advice is for writers, professional copy editors, or simply the curious. Bill Walsh, a longtime Washington Post copy editor, considers not only traditional conundrums (split infinitives, serial commas, dashes, hopefully, desert vs. dessert) but also the peculiar usage questions that have been raised by 21st-century life and, in particular, the rise of the Internet. Email vs. e-mail, political correctness, bullets, brackets, slang--Walsh tackles it all with aplomb, clarifying the issues and managing to make them entertaining, too.