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find the typo in the article about a spelling bee

Here’s the piece in New York magazine’s Intelligencer column. Careful: there are lots of big words. The spelling mistake isn’t in one of them.

Just because you’re a great writer doesn’t mean, as it turns out, you’re also a great speller. This was the disappointing lesson of “A Better Bee,” a literary-celeb-studded spelling bee held at Exit Art in Chelsea last night to benefit the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Contestants included big-name writers like Garden State author Rick Moody, The Position scribe Meg Wolitzer, and Prep’s Curtis Sittenfeld. (Last year’s champion, Ghost Town author Patrick McGrath, couldn’t attend and was instead represented by a Hello Kitty doll.)

The misspelling is in this paragraph:

As the competition moved into its non-customized rounds, Sherman tripped up on “rhythmically” and Thisbe Nissen missed “baccalaureate.” “Sacrilegious” knocked out Adriana Trigiani, Sigrid Nunez, and Nussbaum. The contestants eventually dwindled to The Epicure’s Lament author Kate Christensen, Georgia O’Keefe biographer Roxana Robinson, Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, and Moody. “Bezoar” baffled all four, which kept them all in the game, but then Moody flubbed “inoculate,” and, several words later, Christensen struck out on “quodlibet.”

Happy hunting!

 

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#1 that’s O’Keeffe, not O’Keefe at infotainment rules on 11.04.06 at

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