Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

by Mary Norris

New Book of the Week , April 6, 2015

Does your heart, like mine, quicken at the thought of entire chapters on the hyphen, the objective case, and the best pencil for marking proof? Oh, you'll get all the grammar porn you could hope for here, schoolmarmy and sensible in just the right proportions, but that's just the beginning. It turns out that Norris, writing her first book after almost four decades at the New Yorker's notoriously finicky copy desk, is a wonderfully appealing storyteller and a stylist who can hold her own with the McPhees and Fraziers she's been editing. You'll come for the commas and stay for the queen.

— Tom

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen was reviewed in Newsletter #36 on April 6, 2015. For more like this, and other bookish news, sign up for the newsletter .

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