I walked into Flyleaf Books, in Chapel Hill, to buy a box of Blackwing pencils, and I walked out with just two pencils — a grey Blackwing 602 and a white Blackwing Pearl — but also a copy of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris.

Norris is a query proofreader at the New Yorker, and I've been enjoying her short videos on grammar and style here's a video of her at the C.W. Pencil Enterprise (a pencil boutique New York City!), talking about reflexive pronouns.

I'm testing the Blackwings, and liking how they write, so will probably be back to Flyleaf to stock up soon.

Department of Handy Haystacks

By the way, see the cool Search page at newyorker.com.

I like to search for the writings of Joseph Mitchell.