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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 1582024"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Memoir, Perfectly Punctuated In 'Between You & Me'</strong></span></p><p>APRIL 08, 2015 7:03 AM ET</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/people/131512385/heller-mcalpin" target="_blank">HELLER MCALPIN</a></p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/397094471/between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/b/between-you-me/9780393240184_custom-90e9bf9bb3e060dfde329376c15ca9c6d1c82648-s300-c85.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/397094471/between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen" target="_blank">Between You & Me</a></strong></p><p>Confessions of a Comma Queen</p><p></p><p>by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/397094480/mary-norris" target="_blank">Mary Norris</a></p><p></p><p>Hardcover, 228 pages<a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/04/08/397823382/memoir-perfectly-punctuated-in-between-you-me#" target="_blank">purchase</a></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/genres/10115/nonfiction/" target="_blank">nonfiction</a></li> </ul><p>More on this book:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/397094471/between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen" target="_blank">NPR reviews, interviews and more</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/397094471/between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen?tab=excerpt" target="_blank">Read an excerpt</a></li> </ul><p>Mary Norris has spent the past 20 years working as "a page OK'er" at <em>The New Yorker,</em>a position she says is unique to the magazine. Essentially, she's a highly specialized proofreader and copy editor on the publication's elaborate author-to-print assembly line. Alternate job descriptions include "prose goddess" and "comma queen."</p><p></p><p><em>Between You & Me,</em> Norris' first book, is part memoir, part guide to the mind-bending nuances of English grammar, and part homage to <em>The New Yorker's </em>legendary writers and copy editors. It brims with wit, personality — and commas. Norris is a stickler who can't resist schtick. She pounces gleefully on typos everywhere, but her book is cheerier and less scolding than the "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" promulgated by Lynn Truss in<em>Eats, Shoots & Leaves.</em></p><p></p><p>Norris, like Truss, addresses the proper use of commas, apostrophes, hyphens and dashes, but she has headlined the grammatical issue she cares about most: "My fondest hope is that just from looking at the title you will learn to say fearlessly 'between you and me' (not 'I') whether or not you actually buy the book and penetrate to the innards of the objective case," she writes.</p><p></p><p>Saying "between you and I" is an error that comes from trying to sound refined and from "putting another person first." Norris explains that if people weren't "so friend——— polite, if they occasionally put themselves first, they would know they had it wrong. No one would begin a confidence with 'Between I and you.'"</p></blockquote><p></p>
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