“The Great Typo Hunt” presentation at Borders West

Armed with black markers, correction fluid, and chalk, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson set out to right some grievous wrongs — and they lived to write a book about it.

At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 1st, Deck and Herson will be at Border’s Books West, 3750 University Avenue, to give a free presentation about The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time, their rendition of “how we took a two-and-a-half month drive around the United States to fix typos in public signage.”

According to the co-authors, “Besides detailing the comical adventures of typo correcting, the book shows how the pursuit of typos led us to broader social issues, such as cultural homogenization, race relations, workplace repression, and education. There have been books about spelling and grammatical errors, and there have been books about quixotic road trips, but ours is the first to combine the two—not to mention the first book about fixing typos rather than complaining about them.”