‘I had had a fantasy for years about owning a dairy farm,’ says Mary Norris, as she considers her career options in the first section of this odd but charming cross between a memoir and a usage guide. ‘I liked cows: they led a placid yet productive life.’
Instead, she found a productive life — if not always as placid as she might have liked — as a copy editor on the New Yorker magazine.
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