A panda walks into a cafe.

Nice little story in the NY Times books section about a surprising book on the British best seller lists: a book on punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation turned out to be very successful, possibly because it was a novelty gift for the intellectual set, and possibly because of the cover illustration of a panda painting over the comma in the title. The author is somewhat of a punctuation stickler, and has even written articles about apostrophe abuse. The book has now been sold to an American publisher, and will be published here in the spring.