Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics)
Aaron Gwyn, Twitter, images of Cormac McCarthy's letter to his editor Albert Erskine about stylistic nuances of colons, commas, hyphens in his his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. (Gwyn describes these as stylistic quirks, which seems odd to me given the substantive arguments given for his choices.) Doesn't seem kosher to help myself to these images and post them here, but you can see what McCarthy had to say here
[This was originally posted back in 2009, I think, but was depublished by Blogger for violating Community Guidelines. Not sure what was wrong, but went in and cleaned up a few things, now it has been reinstated as a recent post.]