Helpful as it is, though, Moody’s book is sometimes more Felix than Oscar: it’s dense, meticulous (except for the author’s dismaying habit of forming the plural of a proper name by adding an apostrophe before the ‘s.’), formidably well researched and, in the first half especially, a little dull.
Charles McGarth reviewing A. David Moody's new biography on Ezra Pound, Il Miglior Fabbro. New York Times, January 27, 2008.
See Porcupine: Even professional writers (and their editors!) let slip the occasional misplaced apostrophe.
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