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Copy editing for the new yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team every little movement gets picked over by the critics, says mary norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. We use cookies on this site to enhance the visitor experience. Despite the extreme grammar, this book charmed my socks off. Here you can find your favorite wired shows and new episodes of our latest hit series tradecraft. Mary norris has spent more than three decades in the new yorker. Apr 28, 2020 mary norris began working at the new yorker in 1978 and was a query proofreader at the magazine for twentyfour years. Mary norris allerton was about thirty when she came on the mayflower with her husband isaac and three children bartholomew, remember, and mary. Enforce the rules long enough, and eventually the rules become a part of you.
Confessions of a comma queen, illuminates this shadow world at last. Close punctuation is not meant as a guide to stops and starts, like dickenss and melvilles commas. 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. I use print, internet and mobile media to market your home. With over 15 years of experience in real estate, mary uses her design eye to. 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 comma, what is a semicolon, anyway.
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Mary norris nee cronin born 1932 was a young woman who was sent to a magdalene asylum, where her name was changed and she was imprisoned until removed by an aunt. Mary norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is. Apr 29, 2015 mary norris is a copy editor at the new yorker, where she has worked since 1978. Norton, 2015, which became a new york times bestseller.
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