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Spector makes punctuation interesting, entertaining, and easy to understand. Read it the first time for fun, and refer to it later to find answers for specific questions. -Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (St. Martin's Griffin) Stephen Spector has handed us a great gift: a comprehensive, contemporary, and entertaining guide to punctuation. -Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar (Little Brown & Company) A recent book by Stephen Spector of Stony Brook University, The Quotable Guide to Punctuation (Oxford University Press, 2017), is entirely devoted to the deployment of punctuation marks. It is a well-written and often entertaining student-oriented book that will be useful for anyone who teaches writing. --Chronicle of Higher Education

Spector makes punctuation interesting, entertaining, and easy to understand. Read it the first time for fun, and refer to it later to find answers for specific questions. -Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (St. Martin's Griffin) Stephen Spector has handed us a great gift: a comprehensive, contemporary, and entertaining guide to punctuation. -Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar (Little Brown & Company)

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Stephen Spector is professor of English and former department chair at SUNY Stony Brook University. He has published eight books, dealing mainly with religion, politics, and language. He has received numerous prizes, fellowships, and grants, has been a Visiting Scholar at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and has held research fellowship appointments at the National Humanities Center and Wesleyan University.

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