Editor #1: Is it fiction?
Editor #2: Yeah, it’s an adult book. I mean, regular fiction, not young adult. That always sounds so weird, adult book.
Editor #1, laughing: I know!
Editor #2: Like it was a little book that grew up!
Editor #1: … Yeah. Like that.
Murray Hill
New York City, New York
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Editor-in-chief, about how urgent a specific task is: Fairly urgent, but in a leisurely sort of way.
Mississauga
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Confused, but in an understanding sort of way
Editor-in-chief: So I can’t say “pubic” on one of our editorials?
Opinion editor: No.
Editor-in-chief: And you won’t let me say “Anal osculation?”
Opinion editor: No!
E Pratt St
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Working at
Undergrad: If I shit a brick, what would the geologists think of it?
Men’s room, University of Iowa
Iowa
