Between You & Me Confessions of a Comma Queen

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. 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 swear 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. Zusammenfassung From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats! Shoots & Leaves

Product details

• Authors: Mary Norris, Norris Mary
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language
• EAN: 9780393352146
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35214-6
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 20.8 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Erinnerungen (div.) s.a. Einzelperson, Humor, The New Yorker, Memoir, Language, English, Writing, Apostrophe, Grammar, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, funny, Magazine, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, Writing and editing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, usage, pencils, punctuation, Copyeditor, blackwing, pencil sharpener, serial comma, copy editor