The New Yorker is famous for its stringent copy-editing standards. Mary Norris, who has been at The New Yorker since 1978 and has served as a copy editor, proofreader, and writer, is the author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen and Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen. “There is no denying that attention to detail isContinueContinue reading “In Language, How Important Is Detail?”
