Mary Norris | Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen with Robin Black | Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide
As a three-decade veteran of The New Yorker’s copy department, Mary Norris has had the task of maintaining the venerable periodical’s legendary high standards. In her bestselling Confessions of a Comma Queen, a “winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language” (Vogue), she brings her vast experience, wit, and red pen to bear in a raucous language book full of life, advice, and examples from a bevy of writing genres.
Robin Black’s debut novel, Life Drawing, won acclaim as a “taut, elegant” (The Guardian) portrait of marriage, creative partnership, and the secrets that both threaten and sustain love. Her critically acclaimed short story collection If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. In Crash Course she delves into the need to make art amidst the challenges of life.
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