For all of the 27,000 people worldwide who have read my interview with Mary Norris on copy editing at The New Yorker, you should check out her essay in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It is on the back page and talks about her relationship with her famous brother/sister, Baby Dee, who decides to have a sex change operation. It is very funny.
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