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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Between You Me Confessions of a Comma Queen Author:Mary Norris From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage, and she has been hailed by John McPhee as the "verbal diagnos... more »tician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything." Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.
Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud exhortations about exclamation marks and emoticons, comma faults and curse words; her memorable exchanges about usage with writers such as Ian Frazier, Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders; and her loving meditations on the most important tools of the trade. Readers -- and writers -- will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise new friend in love with language.« less