First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Copy Editors?*

What Editors Do, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roberts Caro and Gottlieb, Clarice Lispector, More

The great Nassim Nicholas Taleb, possibly thinking unpleasant thoughts about copy editors. Salzburg Global Seminar

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of such bestsellers such Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, famously dislikes copy editors. He tweets about his distaste. He even writes about it in his books.

In Antifragile, for instance, he identifies “c…