Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of EditingIn Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine. He portrays in detail the peculiar, nurturing atmosphere at the New Yorker. And he recounts the series of tremors that shook the magazine in the last years of Shawn's editorship and ended in his dismissal by the magazine's new owners. This memoir is at once a tribute to William Shawn, a close look at the relationship between writer and editor, and a joyful homage to the inextricably linked arts of editing, writing, and reading. |
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A STORY IN THE NEW YORKER | 3 |
THE SIGHTED BOOK | 43 |
FROM ELIOT HOUSE TO THE PICASSO | 63 |
Copyright | |
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