Ah, now I see it! I thought you were commenting on something in the Globe and Mail story, when, instead, you were commenting on a sentence in my blog! (I should have figured this! After all, I don’t have my posts copy edited.) Anyway, you are quite right: it was a typo. I have now fixed it.

The paragraph starts, “Smith’s conclusion…”

Totally don’t see it in the penultimate graf:
“The poet Damian Rogers pointed out that Sylvia Plath wrote her monumental collection Ariel by rising at 4 a.m. every morning, before the kids were up. This was not, apparently, because she was particularly disciplined, but because that was when her sleeping pill from the night before wore off. She had no choice.” Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Second sentence, penultimate paragraph.

Hmm, I don’t see that clause anywhere… “The it” makes no sense to me!