Lynne Truss, <i>Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation</i> April 16, 2004

Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Friday, April 16th Lynne Truss will discuss her book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. This British bestseller is now available in a long-awaited U.S. edition.

Punctuation is an endangered species. To the rescue comes Lynne Truss, who uses her urbane, witty, and learned voice to advocate for the proper use of punctuation. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.