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Cowley worked his magic again in launching Jack Kerouac’s career, spending years talking up and excerpting “On the Road” in magazines before publishing the 1957 Beat touchstone with Viking to immediate acclaim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Its formula is to hire two or three reporters per city and fill out newsletters by excerpting stories from existing local outlets.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

The curators provide a more substantial tether, excerpting a review Adnan wrote of a 1963 Guggenheim exhibition of Kandinsky, which she saw during her first trip to New York.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Even at 82, Steinem says the experience taught her something: “It made me understand the dangers of excerpting a few words.”

From Time • May 5, 2016

For every one doth not know what is excerpting.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac