Ebook {Epub PDF} Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris

Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen is the first book by Mary Norris, who has been on the staff of The New Yorker for some 35 years, and a Page OK’er for twenty of those. She has been referred to by some as a prose goddess, or a comma queen, and indeed, a whole chapter of this book is devoted to comma usage, and cleverly titled.  · Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book. 7 rows ·  · Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc.

Mary Norris began working at She is best known for her pieces on pencils and punctuation. She is the author of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" and. Which is why even those of you who don't have the soul of a second-grade grammar teacher will love Between You and Me, the hilarious and delightful "memoir" by the longtime New Yorker copy editor, Mary Norris, who confides in the subtitle that she is a "comma queen." (The above is not a full sentence, I know -- but I think I can get. Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in Originally from Cleveland, she now lives in New York. Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen is her first book.

In Mary Norris’s “Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” we have our answer: They most certainly are. And their obsessions, typographical and otherwise, make hilarious reading. Which is why even those of you who don’t have the soul of a second-grade grammar teacher will love Between You and Me, the hilarious and delightful “memoir” by the longtime New Yorker copy editor, Mary Norris, who confides in the subtitle that she is a “comma queen.” (The above is not a full sentence, I know -- but I think I can get away with it by calling it "my style." Also, I put quotation marks around the word “memoir,” Mary – I know you’re wondering -- because I was. Mary Norris puts the stamp of approval on every issue of "The New Yorker." She has been the keeper of the magazine's grammar flame since and the magazin.