Matthew Crowley profiles New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris, whose just-published book Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen is a "memoir-cum-usage guide" that celebrates restrained editing: "The best copy editors, Norris said, possess a blend of high intelligence and low ego. They’re at peace in backgrounds, unnoticed and unsung. It would be nice if the writers we save were grateful, she said, but we shouldn’t come to expect it."
