JEFF DECK served as an associate editor for Rocks & Minerals
magazine and his short stories have appeared in The Furnace Review
and Boston Literary Magazine. He won two spelling bees in junior
high.
BENJAMIN D. HERSON has been a bookseller for the past eight years.
His short stories have appeared in Dan River Anthology and Down in
the Dirt.
They are the somewhat fearless leaders of the Typo Eradication
Advancement League (TEAL).
Visit www.GreatTypoHunt.com.
Indie Next List, "Great Reads from Booksellers You
Trust," August 2010
Boston Globe Bestseller
"[THE GREAT TYPO HUNT], where editor meets road trip, is
entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking, and one that any
lover of language, travel — or both — will probably enjoy."
—The Boston Globe
"[A]n illuminating hybrid of travelogue, English usage
textbook and sociological experiment."
—Washington Post
"[C]omplete with breezy writing, mock superhero prologues, and a
serious mission to return phonics and proofreading to places of
honor."
—Christian Science Monitor
"Part classic road-trip narrative, buddy-love saga and
state-of-the-nation survey, it's also an adventure thriller for
grammar fiends, travel porn for copy editors and other enforcers of
linguistic propriety."
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Deck and Herson show the reader that adventures in language
needn’t be limited to the computer screen or printed page. In their
view, the real excitement’s out there on the open road, and they
want you to share it."
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
"[B]reezy and fun....most interesting when it delves into issues of
class and race...and in its discussion of the plasticity of the
English language."
—Salon.com
“This pair of kooks, with their high standards and principled civil
disobedience, give me hope for the future of humanity.”
—Steven Pinker, Harvard College professor, Harvard University, and
author of The Language Instinct and The Stuff of Thought
“A compelling read! Deck and Herson have brilliantly combined the
exploratory curiosity of the travel writer, the human interest of
the story-teller, and the explanatory detail of the language
specialist into an original, humorous, and engaging narrative.
Anyone interested in language standards, attitudes, and education
should read this enticing book.”
—David Crystal, author of Just a Phrase I'm Going Through and By
Hook or By Crook: a Journey in Search of English
“Only Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson could make the complete decline
of the English language so entertaining. It's heartening to
accompany these two young men on their quixotic quest to identify
and rehabilitate the typos, spellos, and prepostrophes that
threaten to bring down civilization as we know it.”
—Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English
“With sly humor and pitch-perfect tone, Jeff and Benjamin take us
on a hilarious ride in a '97 Sentra around the U.S.A. in search of
malapropisms and misprints on everything from menus to marquees,
bumpers to billboards. It's a spell-checker's On the Road, a
Strunk & White Odyssey, a charming Travels with My Dictionary with
two young men who start as linguists and end as friends.”
—Michael Malone, author of Handling Sin and The Four Corners of the
Sky
“In this seriously funny--and seriously thoughtful--book, a simple
typo hunt becomes something more: an investigation into the deeper
mysteries of orthographical fallibility. To err is human; to
correct, divine!”
—Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's
Guide to Better English in Plain English
“A funny and obsessive adventure that any language lover will
appreciate.”
—David Wolman, author of Righting the Mother Tongue: From
Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
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