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'Comma Queen' offers a guide for the grammatically insecure
In "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen," Mary Norris recounts a life of grammatical grief and glory as a copy editor for The New Yorker. Norris joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the magazine’s style standards, and whether she's worried about language and literature in the age of spell check and autocorrect.
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