She has spent decades working as a copy editor at the most prestigious magazine in the world, the new yorker. Sure one can do all kinds of work that may involve using rhetoric. Apr 01, 2015 most readers perhaps wouldnt use the word fun when describing a guide to grammar and punctuation. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Confessions of a comma queen in pdf, epub, mobi, kindle online. Mary norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language thats contagious. She speaks at the wisconsin book festival in madison. Confessions of a comma queen, illuminates this shadow world at last. In the summer of 1977, she was reading one of writer john mcphees impeccable and exact pieces about the alaskan wilderness, and came across a new word, synecdoche.
April 2015 lets get one thing straight right from the beginning. Adventures of the comma queen inspired by an unlikely momentseeing sean connerys cameo as agamemnon in the movie time banditsand spurred on by her boss and mentor in the new. Now, she has written a semiautobiographical book delineating the most important writing tools that you need to establish written credibility. In the end, rhetorical criticism helps improve us as citizens. Confessions of a comma queen 2015, norton is part autobiography, part style guide. Mary norris has spent more than three decades in the new yorker. Mary norris has spent more than three decades guarding the new yorkers grand traditions of grammar and usage. Stream or download audiobooks to your computer, iphone or android. And their obsessions, typographical and otherwise, make hilarious readingdespite the extreme grammar, this book charmed my socks off norris is a master storyteller and serves up plenty of inside stuff. This book gives the reader new knowledge and experience. Mary norris began working at the new yorker in 1978, and has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993. Confessions of a comma queen,part memoir, part language guide. Apr 06, 2015 mary norris has spent more than three decades working in the new yorkers renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. Mary norris describes the birth of her love affair with the new yorker in her new book between you and me.
Between you and me contra costa county library overdrive. Mary norris has spent more than three decades working in the new yorkers renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. Ian frazier mary norris brings a toughminded, cleareyed, finetuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the english sentence. She could deduce what it meant from the contexta small thing writ largeas. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened. Confessions of a comma queen by mary norris and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Norris joined the editorial staff at the new yorker in 1978. 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 guarding. Confessions of a comma queen is an awkward combination of a memoir of a former copy editor of the new yorker and discussions of grammatical errors and confusions, one of which gave its name to the book. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that its easy to forget youre learning things. Confessions of a comma queen by mary norris online at alibris. Most readers perhaps wouldnt use the word fun when describing a guide to grammar and punctuation. New yorker copy editor mary norris s between you and me has wit, sass, and smarts most readers perhaps wouldnt use the word fun when describing a guide to. 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 oker for twenty of those. Confessions of a comma queen, she held a quirky array of jobs before she landed at the magazine. Mary norris mary norris has spent more than three decades in the new yorkers copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. She has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993, as well as a contributor to the magazines the talk of the town column and.
Between you and me norris, mary mary norris has spent more than three decades. Between you and me henrico county public library overdrive. She has been the keeper of the magazines grammar flame since 1978 and the magazin. Apr 04, 2015 mary norris has been a copy editor at the new yorker since 1978. Confessions of a comma queen, is billed as a guide to good language usage, but its also an insight into norris career and is as much memoir as it is practical text book. May 24, 2018 mary norris has spent more than 30 years working in the copy department of the new yorker. Adam gopnik mary norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.
Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous. Get free shipping on between you and me by mary norris, from. Confessions of a comma queen was published in 2015. Create a free website vaultpress backup and security scanning for your site akismet the antispam service for the web crowdsignal create surveys for the web and mobile.
Mary norris puts the stamp of approval on every issue of the new yorker. Between you and me, this is an entertaining book oh, dear, oh, dear, i thought as i began mary norris s between you and me. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Mary norris has spent more than three decades in the new yorkers copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Mary norris muses on a lifetime of literary vigilance in. Mary norriss book, her first, defies easy genre classification. Her reading was too slow, too deliberate, and there was too much pause between some sentences and paragraphs. Mary norris born february 7, 1952 is an american author, writer and copy editor for the new. New yorker copy editor mary norriss between you and me. 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. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. April 4, 2015 mary norris has been a copy editor at the new yorker since 1978. In greek to me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of selfexpression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. A legendary new yorker copy editors endlessly enjoyable life lessons in spelling and punctuation, grammar and usage.
Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that its easy to forget you re learning things. She draws on examples from charles dickens, emily dickinson. Confessions of a comma queen kindle edition by norris, mary. Buy between you and me by mary norris with free delivery. Norris has been an editor at the new yorker magazine for many years and her voice can be heard through the text, which makes parts of this book an enjoyment to read, especially when she tells stories about her life. But the book between you and me by new yorker copy editor mary norris subtitle.
Norton yet these confessions of a comma queen are no mere roundup of miss thistlebottoms hobgoblins. Publisher amazon amazon uk book depository goodreads. Between you me confessions of a comma queen by mary norris. Confessions of a comma queen, that is being released on monday. New yorker copy editor mary norriss between you and me has. Me features norris s laughoutloud descriptions of some of the most common. In greek to me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of selfexpression, this time filtered through her greatest passion. Oct 24, 2015 mary norris, author of between you and me, offers her solutions to some of the most common grammatical problems. In fact, mary norris explored quite a few interesting career paths before finding her calling as a copy editor at the new yorker. And their obsessions, typographical and otherwise, make hilarious reading. Mary norris offers wonderfully simple and clarifying howtos on spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
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