'Greek To Me' Highlights The Way Ardent Interests Can Enrich A Life
Comma Queen Mary Norris is an uncommonly engaging, witty enthusiast with a nose for delicious details and funny asides that makes you willing to follow her anywhere.
In her delightful first book, Between You and Me, a personable fusion of grammar guide and memoir, Mary Norris, longtime "Comma Queen" of The New Yorker's copy-editing department, parsed some of the fine points of her vocation. In Greek to Me, she excavates her avocation — a multi-decades passion for all things Greek.
While there's some lovely overlap — a fascination with words and usage — we discover that there was much more on her mind during her years on the copydesk
