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"If someone walks in the galley, I watch them," said a flight attendant who would not give her name.
Later, in the ship's pastry galley, I watched a cook popping new ones from a molded silicone baking sheet and arranging them on a tray.
Through the open door of the galley I could watch the cook, a fattish man with wavy hair and a narrow mustache, getting my supper ready.
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"Ever since I read the book in pre-galley I thought: 'Wow, why did I say that, what did I mean?'" Koestenbaum and Nelson have known each once since "the 20th century, when neither of us had email" and when Nelson was Koestenbaum's student at the City University of New York.
Of all the galleys I've read this summer, Illuminae (by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman) has been one of my favourites.
My blurbing problem got so bad that the New York Times book critic Dwight Garner tweeted, "Half the crap galleys I've seen in the past year were blurbed by one human: A. J. Jacobs".
Certainly if I had known there was a chance of corrected galleys, I would not have set, and wish you might have cabled me the new title, which I can well understand your using".
So books are the only form of kipple I'm not opposed to, though adding to the mix all the time, which can be quite guilt-inducing, are the 50 or so bound galleys I'm sent every year to write blurbs for.
When I got the galley copy, I gave it to my mom, and she just sat down and read it cover to cover in front of me.
"Happy new year," I said to a flight attendant who was standing by the front galley as I left.
Toward the end, on galley 12, I wearily brushed your suggested revisions aside, unable to rise to the occasion and finding my own phrasing more succinct and natural.
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