The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

Corrections: Any to add to our list for the next edition?

Whoops. Ford Mav­er­ick auto­mo­biles existed in 1969, but the first model year was 1970. Salary fig­ures on Pages 115–116 of the trade paper­back edi­tion con­tra­dict each other. And on page 157, there’s a ref­er­ence to “Eddie LaGassie” rather than “Ernie LaGassie.”

Those are among the glitches that made it into the first edi­tion of The Solomon Scan­dals despite superb copy edi­tors. All in all, things worked out well com­pared to, say, Democ­racy, where the edi­tors mis­num­bered chap­ters XII and XIII, or The Great Gatsby, which appeared with dozens of typos. But what’s wrong with at least try­ing for a per­fect book? So if you spot any fac­tual inac­cu­ra­cies or other glitches in Scan­dals, please e-mail David Roth­man. The LaGassie and salary cor­rec­tions came from a reader who loved the book and wanted to help make it still bet­ter. Other feed­back welcome!

Update, Jan­u­ary 22, 2009: Turns out that we zapped the Mav­er­ick glitch in time for the pro­duc­tion edi­tion of Scan­dals. But it’s still a won­der­ful exam­ple of chal­lenges of pro­duct­ing a “per­fect” book.

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