'Eats, Shoots' author to speak today at BYU

PROVO — Of all the things that may be made fun and funny, British humorist Lynn Truss did so for punctuation, and she's bringing her crusade to Brigham Young University.

Truss will speak today at a BYU forum assembly at the Marriott Center at 11:05 a.m.

Reviewers who loved her No. 1 international best-selling book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," have called her "a reformer with the soul of a stand-up comedian," a "well-read scold" and "wickedly funny." Truss has titled her lecture, "Is This the End of Literacy?"

Truss has been a broadcaster, journalist, TV critic, sports columnist, novelist and author in Britain. She followed "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, with "Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door." BYU Broadcasting TV and radio channels will carry the forum live. The forum will be rebroadcast.

A schedule is available at byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu.

— Tad Walch