Where are the editors?
I'm reading Swamplandia! , last year's acclaimed first novel by Karen Russell that was one of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize which ultimately was not awarded to any of the year's many fine books . I had just started the book and I was reading along, enjoying the language and the descriptions when I come across this sentence: "But one night, the eve of their tenth wedding anniversary, she woke my sister and I and made us come out to the museum." "Nooooo!" I screamed. That sentence hit me right in the solar plexus. It represents what is easily my pet peeve among grammatical sins - the use of subjective pronouns as objects. It's something that one hears all the time on television now and sees more and more in print, even in print that should know better like this book published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House. Would any writer worth his/her salt or any halfway reputable punditizer on TV or even a writer of an inane television show e...