{"product_id":"2940170763351","title":"Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Norris has spent more than three decades in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's\u003c\/i\u003e copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreek to Me\u003c\/i\u003e features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usageamp;mdash;comma faults, danglers, \"who\" vs. \"whom,\" \"that\" vs. \"which,\" compound words, gender-neutral languageamp;mdash;and her clear explanations of how to handle them. Down-to-earth and always open-minded, she draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from \u003ci\u003eThe Honeymooners\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReadersamp;mdash;and writersamp;mdash;will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell-check. As Norris writes, \"The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117526434032,"sku":"2940170763351","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170763351_p0.jpg?v=1763716846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170763351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}