Notable Online: 6/28–7/4
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Mary Norris
Notable NYC: 6/22–6/28
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/9–6/15
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Reviewing Mary Norris’s Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen for The New Republic, Julia Holmes reflects on her own experience as a copy editor, as well as her place in the magazine class system.
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Mary Norris has a gift for your favorite grammarian in this week’s New Yorker: a detailed account of comma policy from a veteran copyeditor. The magazine is notorious for its meticulous house style (where else do you still see a diaeresis over the word coördinate?), which it owes to Mensa-level punctuator Eleanor Gould and her […]
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