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Been with the new yorker for a decade and caught a mistake in a book beginning to excerpt and this is unusual because the book had been through the editing and a note came back and said who is this woman and will she come live with me. and mary says i m still available. and it is a joy to welcome mary norris author of a book about language and life at the new yorker entitled between you and me confessions of a comma queen. welcome, mary. thank you. it is so nice to be here. and so a lot of times, writers dislike the process that happens with the copy editors. tell the writers out there, why they should embrace that process? well we are only trying to make you look your best. i prefer to think of us as gad flies, not gnats. ....

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