New York TimesEats, Shoots & Leaves
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Between You & Me describes “prose goddess” Norris’s 35-year stint with The New Yorker magazine as a page OK-er (unique to the magazine). The position dictated that she query-proofread pieces and manage them with the editor, the author, a fact-checker, and a second proofreader until they went to press. Her entertaining account of her journey through punctuation pitfalls and contact with celebrated writers brings new perspectives to grammar--“to be” is a copulative verb (it links nouns together), and pronouns are the avatars of nouns. 10 chapters are: spelling is for weirdos; that witch!; the problem of Heesh; between you and me; comma comma comma comma, chameleon; who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick?; a dash, a semicolon, and a colon walk into a bar; what’s up with the apostrophe?; f*ck this sh*t; ballad of a pencil junkie. T Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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