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The New Yorker

Oct

21

2015

Between You & Me

Between You & Me:
Confessions of a Commma Queen
by Mary Norris

“Ever wondered about all those commas or strange word breaks in the venerable New Yorker? Longtime copy editor Mary Norris offers readers a delicious hybrid of a book–part memoir and part grammar guide. Hers was not a direct path to the copy desk, where she’s spent the last 30 years. Her first job was inspecting feet …

Dec

7

2010

Appealingly Aimless Montanans Win New Yorker Hearts (and Other Titles from Listapalooza 2010)

As is the custom just about everywhere in Book Universe right now, the reviewers at The New Yorker have listed their favorite books of 2010. Among them is the novel Everything by Montanan Kevin Canty, which appears with this pleasing summation: “One year’s turmoil for five appealingly aimless Montanans.” Those New Yorker people, so good at …

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