Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Mary Norris
(Author)
Description
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 as full of life as it is of practical advice.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
April 04, 2016
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.7 X 8.2 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393352146
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About the Author
Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York.
Reviews
[P]ure porn for word nerds.--Allan Fallow
[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language.--Megan O'Grady
Funny and endearing.--Joanna Connors
Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.--Steve Weinberg
Smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating.--Ian Frazier
Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.--Adam Gopnik
Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.--Marilyn Johnson
Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is...like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules.--Sarah Lyall
Mary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language that's contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that it's easy to forget you're learning things.
A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between.
Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.--John McPhee
Destined to become an instant classic...It's hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris.
[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language.--Megan O'Grady
Funny and endearing.--Joanna Connors
Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.--Steve Weinberg
Smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating.--Ian Frazier
Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.--Adam Gopnik
Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.--Marilyn Johnson
Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is...like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules.--Sarah Lyall
Mary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language that's contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that it's easy to forget you're learning things.
A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between.
Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.--John McPhee
Destined to become an instant classic...It's hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris.
