(p. 18) Norris is a master storyteller and serves up plenty of inside stuff. When Mark Singer wrote an article about the cost of going to the movies and buying refreshments, the editors cut his reference to Junior Mints. As one editor intoned, “A New Yorker writer should not be eating Junior Mints.”
For the full review, see:
PATRICIA T. O’CONNER. “Consider the Comma.” The New York Times Book Review (Sun., APRIL 19, 2015): 18.
(Note: ellipses added.)
(Note: the online version of the review has the date APRIL 14, 2015, and has the title “‘Between You & Me,’ by Mary Norris.”)
The book under review, is:
Norris, Mary. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.